Windows 11 and decompress .s files

[amtrak115]

I just rebuilt my "old" (better than 12 years) windows 10 machine, now have windows 11. tried decompressing a .S file yesterday. Tried to use sfm25.hta that I've used in the past. it loaded ok however it will not decompress the .s file.. throws an object error... Is there any other tool that can decompress .s files, or something I'm missing??

Barry

[OmenRotcod]

I've used Slipperman's FFEDIT_Sub (File ID 40291) for ages. It works well.

David

[slipperman]

Hi Barry,
I don't have Windows 11 (yet!) but I'm assuming that (a) it can run programs which require Internet Explorer to run (SFM) and (b) that you've got FFEDITc_unicode.exe available.
SFM and FFEDIT must be on the same drive and neither FFEDIT nor the target .s file/s should be in any of the Windows-created folders (security/privacy reasons!).

Cheers,
Ged

EDIT : Thanks for the 'plug', David, but I have a feeling that Barry's problem could have another cause.

[MMCdude]

I use MSTS ShapeShifter. I've had no problems with it on Win 11, 10, 7, XP...

https://trainsim.com/forums/filelib-search-fileid?fid=63926

[amtrak115]

Thanks to all. Tried "msts shapeshifter" and got it to work. since shapeshifter is just a "wrapper" for ffeditc_unicode.exe...it has to be that I didn't have something configured right. (FYI...Ged...I never put anything related to MSTS or ORTS in the program files chain....learn that lesson a while ago..) Again thanks guys...Hopefully Snowman's new shapefile viewer will provide a more "streamline" interface....

[OmenRotcod]

Something that Ged's program does is it will allow you to compress or decompress all the .s files in a folder. This is something I often do, for example, when someone uploads a folder that contains several engines and all the .s files have to be (created and) compressed.

I haven't used Shapeshifter, so I wonder if it will handle .s files in a folder too.

David

[Tonya37]

Hi Batty

If I remember correctly .hta programs need to have MS Edge installed in order to run. It used to be Internet Explorer but I think Edge does the job too.

Tony