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Can anyone open this Cold War Soviet .inst?

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2023 7:55 pm
by Blast33
I had in my import file a nice one of the Soviet Air Force in East Germany 1984 (see attachment).

When Import the file CMO says: Completed!
But no facilty enters the map and it stays empty.

I tried other older CWDB's ,but to no effect

Anyone has an idea why or has an alternative? with Soviet deployments in the West?
Soviet Air Force in East Germany, 1984.zip
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Re: Can anyone open this Cold War Soviet .inst?

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2023 8:20 pm
by stilesw
Blast33

Sorry, couldn't find another copy. I opened it with a hex editor and it does not seem to be a valid .inst file - completely different format.

-WS

Re: Can anyone open this Cold War Soviet .inst?

Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2023 11:57 pm
by KnightHawk75
I think you saved the whole page as html, stead of selecting the raw text, or doing a download file from github (though I think dl option button only appears if you are signed into github, which it looks like you were not when you saved the page).

Fixed, works for me

Here:
SovietAirForceEastGermany-1984.zip
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Re: Can anyone open this Cold War Soviet .inst?

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 4:49 pm
by Blast33
Thank you all, works perfect!

I don't know where I originally got it from, but when searching around, I did found one variant on Github indeed.
Now it is time for action 8-)
Great!

just curious, how where you able to fix it? Or did you had a copy yourself?
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Re: Can anyone open this Cold War Soviet .inst?

Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2023 6:47 pm
by thewood1
Whats the link for github downloads? I only know of the db request section.

Re: Can anyone open this Cold War Soviet .inst?

Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 12:43 am
by KnightHawk75
thewood1 wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 6:47 pm Whats the link for github downloads? I only know of the db request section.
Yeah from new community effort github:
https://github.com/Kinaros/Command_Resources/tree/main/ (ImportExport/CWDB/Europe in this case)

Re: Can anyone open this Cold War Soviet .inst?

Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 12:45 am
by KnightHawk75
Blast33 wrote: Tue Jan 10, 2023 4:49 pm Thank you all, works perfect!

I don't know where I originally got it from, but when searching around, I did found one variant on Github indeed.
Now it is time for action 8-)
Great!

just curious, how where you able to fix it? Or did you had a copy yourself?
Clipboard01.jpg
I opened the file in browser (after noticing the html header in the file), copied the raw inst text only and pasted into notepad and re-saved, nothing special. :)

Re: Can anyone open this Cold War Soviet .inst?

Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 6:37 am
by Blast33
Aha, good to know, thank you for the secret :idea:

Re: Can anyone open this Cold War Soviet .inst?

Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2023 6:59 pm
by thewood1
Thanks for the link.