CompuServe Thread

Well Jeffrey!!!!, Tell me it is really you 🙂 Yes, I know that and that works fine if It was to be done on a computer that you are sitting in front of or had the stuff on a disk to pop into the computer. But this is to be d/l'd to others that may know absolutely nothing about how to unzip a program or even what a zipped program is. So it has to be something that will play by typing its name. OK , example. You know nothing about computers except how to turn them on and mouse through windows. Now you venture out to say CIS and see a graphic file that you want to look at. No where in your experience have you had to do anything but mouse a file and it runs. Now you get a file that has a .zip extension. You mouse it to death, and nothing happens. Ok suppose someone tells you that you have to look at this file in DOS. So you go to DOS and type its name and again nothing happens. (you say..well DOOM word when I do that !) SO you say 'all this stuff is for the BIRDS!' and delete the file. But if you have a file that is an .exe file and you are in DOS and type its name…it then gives you what you were after…a flick to view. That is why I want something that will play when its name is typed. GEE! Glad you are still around and one piece. Have missed you :)………………………Jane

Hi Jeffrey, Well I feel very stupid as the solution was hitting me right in the face and I could not see it. The solution was PK204G and the ZIP2EXE. Now I had use this a lot when I was using AA but as things got upgraded and windows step in and AniPRo came along, I forgot that an animators best friend is Scripting and POCO and PK ZIP2EXE. So now that Jane has recalled what she needed for what she is doing, I hope that others that need to do the same thing..remember our best friend..PKZIP! and register their copy. A friend in need is a friend in deed. Jeffrey, you do tend to make me think….:) ………..Thanks……………………………..Jane

Hi Dave, I solved the problem. There were really a .FLC and a tune.exe and a read.me file and a runme.me file. At first I thought all I needed was to make the .flc an exe file. But then I had to assume that the person d/l'g the file knows something about doing this kind of thing..and as usual you cannot assume anything with regard to computers and d/l'd files. I wrote a DOS bat file that worked great for this on my 386DX33 at work. Would not work on my computer at home. SO I was wrong, I did not need to make the .flc an .exe file at all. I simply needed to use ZIP2EXE from PKZIP and make the whole thing and .exe file. That way all the person wanting to view the .flc has to do it type the .exe files name and then run the runme.bat file. I guess I made the whole thing more complicated than it had to be. But I am new at this and just learning what needs to be done so others that d/l the file will have the least trouble viewing what they have d/l'd. Why I am doing this? I have a Web page and a good friend was kind enough to let me have one of his flics to have as a d/l from my page. ME, I thought that I could just have a .zip d/l. But others told me that a lot of people that may be d/l'ng it would have no idea what to do with a .zipped file. So my problem was to make it fool proof. And I think that with what I have done, IT IS! I hope that anyone else that is planning to have a web page and offer original d/l's can use this information or if they have a problem maybe with what I have learned doing this I can help. I am going after the program that makes .flc into .exe. It is information that I see I am going to need. Thanks for the information and for all the other good help you have given me………………………………Jane