MP15 with AC and DC

[slipperman]

Hi All,

Notepad is not a unicode editor. You need to use something like Notepad++

As Shawn has stated NotePad is quite capable of editing Unicode files. Older versions of NotePad (from Windows 7 and earlier, I believe), cannot process Unicode files.

If you need to compress or uncompress shape files, I suggest you try my FFEDIT_Sub (file ID 87969).
It will successfully compress and uncompress the shape files from this loco. Shape Viewer displays the shapes correctly and SFM can be used to uncompress/compress the files. However, after SFM has compressed the files, there seems to be some "incompatability" within them because FFEDIT_Sub will no longer uncompress them, reporting "Runtime error 9: Subscript out of range"

Cheers,
Ged

[yellowdog]

Hi All,

As Shawn has stated NotePad is quite capable of editing Unicode files. Older versions of NotePad (from Windows 7 and earlier, I believe), cannot process Unicode files.

Good to know! I probably haven't used notepad since Windows 7 😊
The other poster who couldn't get it to work did say they were on Windows 11. So not sure what the issue might be.

[yellowdog]

My go-to method for compressing/uncompressing shape files is using Zipper, from Okrasa Ghia's TK_Utils package. It specifically needs version 1.1 of the Microsoft .NET framework installed, as the utilities will not work with later versions. Even so, the older version of the framework can be installed alongside the later versions and work on it's own. Archibald also works very well when it comes to editing compressed shape files.

I just got an opportunity to test and can confirm Zipper works for me as well, to compress (Zipper has never worked for me to uncompress, so I didn't bother testing that on these models). I also tested SFM 2.5 and was able to compress (and uncompress) these models without issue--even though someone above stated SFM did not work for them.