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- AIRTOOL (copyright by Enrico Schiratti 1996)
- Version date 01.01.1996
-
- Part A) What is this?
- Part B) How do I use it?
- Part C) What else do I have to know about this program?
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- Part A What is this?
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- Airtool is a quick & dirty little program that:
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- - lets you modify the description of FSFS planes in your Aircraft directory
- - saves the FDE (FSFS Flight Model) of an aircraft to an .FDE file
- - loads and writes FDE files into FSFS .AIR files
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- Part B
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- If you aren't into long texts:
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- - Place this file into your FS5 main directory
- - Press the <F1> key to get the help screen
- - Press <Esc> to exit the program
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- If you are:
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- I nearly feel ashamed of this program, it does nothing that you couldn't
- do using the FS5 menus or a hex editor... it just adds a little bit of comfort.
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- As expected, we find a great number of FSFS planes in online services, and
- some of us like to have a minimum of ease when selecting our flying hardware
- or even to want to use reference flight models for similar aircraft.
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- FS5 sorts the planes alphabetically, and the authors of these beauties use
- different methods in naming the files. Some start with the airline name, others
- with their own... I happen to like them sorted by their make.
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- With this little (quick and dirty) program, you can use whatever system you
- want. Just place it in your main FS5 directory, start it and edit the names of
- the planes by pressing return.
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- For instance, you can rename:
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- "Ho-Ho-Ho-Airlines 747-400" to "B747-400 Ho-Ho-Ho"
- "747 Singalese Air Force" to "B747-400 Singalese AF"
- "Boeing 747 Air Uzbekistan" to "B747-400 Air Uzbekistan"
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- Thus grouping all your 747s in your list, letting them come right after the
- 737s and before the 757s.
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- Adding a "J_" before the name of commercial jets would group them together
- as well (got the picture? <g>)
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- The entering of the flight models manually can be another nuisance you can
- avoid. With this program you can save one reference file for a specific
- aircraft and copy it to all others of the same type.
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- For instance, if the "B747-400 Air Uzbekistan" flies the way you want it to,
- just save the parameters to "B747400", creating "B747400.FDE". You can then
- load this data into any FSFS aircraft... preferrably any 747-400 you may have.
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- It is easier than it sounds... I hope.
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- If a file has the famous read-only attribute, this program will briefly remove
- it and reset it once the modification is done.
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- You can press the <F1> key to see what you have to do exactly. I didn't include
- the description here as it normally isn't read by anyone.
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- Part C What else do I have to know about this program?
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- This program *isn't* public domain, it *isn't* shareware, it *is* freeware.
- I am not charging for it (and wouldn't dare to), nobody should charge for it
- (and shouldn't dare to). The rights to this program remain with the author.
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- I consider including this program on a CD-ROM or diskette as charging for it.
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- Obviously, whatever text you may want to enter in the description of the
- planes, the rights of the author(s) of these planes remain untouched.
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- I did my best to make this program as harmless as possible, but still...
- make a backup copy of your planes before using it.
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- Should you have questions or complaints, you can contact me through:
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- 100137.457@compuserve.com
- Enrico_Schiratti@msn.com
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- All mentioned products and brands are trademarks or registered trademarks
- of their respective owners.
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- This file has been uploaded to FSFAN, Compuserve, MSN Flight Sim BBS and
- FTP.IUP.EDU.
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