Guest SS_Obergruppenführer Posted February 11, 2001 Share Posted February 11, 2001 When you get a PBEM file, which is very long and is too large for NotePad to open, what do you do then to play it? ------------------ SLOVENIA- a prospering country for the European Union Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robeek Posted February 11, 2001 Share Posted February 11, 2001 Place the PBEM file into the PBEM folder in your Combat Mission: Operation Overlord folder, then start up the game, click load, and select the PBEM file. Simple as that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirtweasle Posted February 11, 2001 Share Posted February 11, 2001 Why would you open it in Notepad? Simply save the file attachement into your PBEM sub-directory directly from your e-mail. Then you click JOIN MULITPLAYEER, and select E-MAIL game and scroll to the correct turn and select it. It helps if you and your opponent add a number to each file. (YOU_ME_1, YOU_ME_2, etc.) That way at the end you can review each movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SS_Obergruppenführer Posted February 11, 2001 Share Posted February 11, 2001 No, you got me wrong! When a file is so long, you can not even insert the entire one in the Notepad. A file like that cannot be loaded. ------------------ SLOVENIA- a prospering country for the European Union Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SS_Obergruppenführer Posted February 11, 2001 Share Posted February 11, 2001 Yeah, but the guy sends me data, not files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gremlin Posted February 11, 2001 Share Posted February 11, 2001 Ask him to send the file as an email attachment--no problem then. Otherwise, open it in another word processor, like Word, to save it as a file for CM's use. ------------------ New to Combat Mission? Visit CM Boot Camp at Combat Missions for tips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skipper Posted February 11, 2001 Share Posted February 11, 2001 To save you the trouble of buying MS Office, there is an application called Wordpad in Windows. Install it. After thet, if the file is too big for Notepad, you will be auto-prompted to open it in Wordpad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bimmer Posted February 12, 2001 Share Posted February 12, 2001 Not sure about MS products, but in Netscape Mail there is an option under the View menu to View Attachments Inline - try changing this, and then saving the file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisl Posted February 13, 2001 Share Posted February 13, 2001 Also not sure about MS products, but Eudora lets you save an email message as a separate file, then you don't need to to copy and paste. It will even let you take a file thats been split into multiple parts by someones ISP and save them as a single file with the extra headers properly removed. ------------------ "If you can taste the difference between caviar on a cracker and ketchup on a Kit-Kat while blindfolded, you have not had enough aquavit to be ready for lutefisk." (stolen from some web page about lutefisk) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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