Aircraft.cfg file formats?

ndicki

ndicki

Charter Member 2016
I've noticed that the aircraft.cfg files included in ETO are laid out in a very strange way that makes it difficult for me to fiddle about with them - continuous text with little squares that indicate the ends of the "lines." Is there a way to convert them back into a normal layout, does anybody know? It makes life very difficult...
 
The following includes very crude Finnish to English translations. Use your imagination as needed.

Open the file in Word, highlight the entire text and select Table --> Convert --> Text into a table. In the bottom selection where it asks you to choose the divider copy & paste the little square from the text there. Click OK. You now have a massive table, all highlighted. Now select Table --> Convert --> Table into text. Choose the first option, click OK and it should work. The weight on the word should.
 
Some text editor (especially running with Linux) end lines with "Line Feed" instead of "Carriage Return+Line Feed" as needed with Windows. Hence you can see the non-printable LF (the square) and no new line as there misses the CR ...
Maybe you can open the text and replace each LF by CR+LF ? (not sure Notepad does it, maybe OpenOffice ...)
 
noelberrier

Is right on the money.

My guess is you are using notepad as your text editor. Notepad is an OK editor I used it for years until a friend put me on to Edit Pad Lite.

It is a far better Text Editor.

The lite version if for personal non profit use. There is a full feature professional version for non personal use. I don't know what the feature difference is from on to the other but it works great.

Edit pad lite recognizes cfg files that use both the CF and LF line types.

You will never run into those terribly difficult to read config files again.

http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html

It also has better search and replace properties which is why I got it originally.
 
Thanks, all! I'm going to try Dave's suggestion. I was using Notepad, because it's easy...
 
Good thread, I was wondering about that myself, skinners need to make a few standalones!:icon_lol:

EditPad lite works great!
 
I still can't see why people have to make things complicated... ;-)

The W40 Fairey Battle aircraft file is 100% identical to the MAW one, in any case. I ran it through WinMerge to check.
 
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