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From: PCSOFT - Personal Computer software discussion list
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Toomas Piibe

Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Recorder macro

Related to Harvey Segal's query on some way to install the Recorder Macro
from Win 3x into Win9x and replies, I tried to install Cardfile in Win 98SE.
This is a program that, like the Recorder Macro, is not in Win 98x. I had a
lot of Cardfile files that I had saved in a backup prior to reinstalling Win
98 but I neglected to save the Cardfile program itself.

My first attempt failed because I just copied the files to Win 98SE and
changed the compressed file extension from .ex_ to .exe. Posted my
experience to the list and was pointed in the right direction. One solution
was to copy the file EXPAND.exe, found on disk 3 of Win 3.1, and use it to
uncompress the Cardfile compressed file.

For those, who like myself are novices in this area, here is what I did:
a. Created a new folder in C:\ called Expand
b. Copied the EXPAND.exe file from floppy disk 3 of Win 3.1 to C:\Expand
c. Created a new folder in C:\ called Cardfile. [This is where I chose to
install the program and data files]
d. Went START/PROGRAMS/MS-DOS Prompt/Enter
e. This opened a DOS window with C:\Windows folder showing.
f. Changed to the C:\Expand folder
g. Typed EXPAND and pressed Enter
h. The program opened and asked me for the source and file name that I
wanted to expand.
i. Typed: A:\ cardfile.ex_  and pressed Enter [having Win 3.1 floppy disk 4,
the Cardfile.ex_ location, in the floppy drive]
j. The program asked me for the destination folder and name for the expanded
file
k. Typed: C:\ Cardfile\cardfile.exe and pressed enter.

I now have access again to my cardfiles. "Important" things such as a
historical record of the date that bats visited my old Victorian home and
made a bad decision to try and make friends with Maude, my cat :(.
Fortunately, the visits have Petered out!

As Toomas points out below, Win 3.1 is not compatible with Win 2000 but the
above steps should work for any .exe one might want to import from 3.x to
9.x. Thanks to all for immediate response to my initial query.

Peter Darrach
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Cohane" <[log in to unmask]>


>
> The files Cardfile.ex_ and Cardfile.hl_ are probably compressed.
> (They would get uncompressed and renamed when the cardfile
> program installs them.)
>
They are.

> You could try uncompressing them with Winzip or a similar
> "unzipper" program. You'd have to tell Winzip what name to
> give them, but that's easy...you already know what the final
> file names will be.
>

There must be program expand.exe on your windows 3.1 disks.
On Windows for Workgroups 3.11 CE it is disk 7.

Copy it to director where yout compressed files are and write

  expand  cardfile.ex_ cardfile.exe

Delete expand.exe afterwards,because i cant find expand.exe on win98
but windows 2000 verison is not compatible with win3.11 version.


Toomas Piibe

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