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Excellent !! Great work Mr. Huzar, thank you very much ! I am in your debt.

ORIGINAL: sPzAbt653
Excellent !! Great work Mr. Huzar, thank you very much ! I am in your debt.

Yes, I agree, thank you Huzar dude.

Can either side still enter the hex? If so, what happens when some one does enter the hex? Losses, or ..............?

Guys,

Please excuse my lack of knowledge on this but what is a rar file?

Best wishes,
Steve

ORIGINAL: shunwick
Please excuse my lack of knowledge on this but what is a rar file?

It's an archive file format, like "zip". You must use winrar (http://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar393.exe) to open it.

Can either side still enter the hex? If so, what happens when some one does enter the hex?

The skull and crossbones is only graphical in my scenario. I also put badlands in the hex so that it would have some effect. I think Mr. Huzar uses it in place of the contaminated hex in his scenario, so it has that effect.

ORIGINAL: Huzar

ORIGINAL: shunwick
Please excuse my lack of knowledge on this but what is a rar file?

It's an archive file format, like "zip". You must use winrar (http://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar393.exe) to open it.

There's also a free program called 7-Zip, which can handle several compression systems

ORIGINAL: Silvanski

ORIGINAL: Huzar

ORIGINAL: shunwick
Please excuse my lack of knowledge on this but what is a rar file?

It's an archive file format, like "zip". You must use winrar (http://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar393.exe) to open it.

There's also a free program called 7-Zip, which can handle several compression systems

Why not just use a zip file. Then I wouldn't have to download anything else. Or is that too simple?

Best wishes,
Steve

PS: Sorry that sounds more aggressive than I meant it to be. What I was trying to ask was what is the benefit of a rar over a zip?

Rar files are smaller/denser, Steve........surrender gracefully, LOL!

[:D]

You wouldn't believe the number of different file extraction programs I've had to get. It's a bit crazy. Someone is sure to come along with yet another. [8|]

What someone needs to do is make a utility that can package any and all of these things and any yet to be produced in a graceful and competent manner. And while they're at it they can conquer cancer and bring about world peace.

ORIGINAL: shunwick
Why not just use a zip file. Then I wouldn't have to download anything else. Or is that too simple?

Well, rar is one of the most popular formats on Windows (with the best compression ratio), together with 7z (which is good, but I don't like it) and old zip (which is just popular and inferior in many ways to other formats). But I understand the irritation, I am irritated when I see the 7z format.

The good thing is - you must install an external program only once, because most of them recognize other formats, so for example with winrar you can unpack also 7z files, and with 7zip you can unpack also rar files.

Kurt,

"Never Give Up, Never Surrender!"

Best wishes,
Steve

LOL!