Ok, so what about those of us who already followed Don's bad advice.
What do we do now? My GeoExtraCodes.txt file is back to the original (I
changed it by hand), but is dated as updated 4/1/06.
Kirstin
Dave Naylor wrote:
On 29 Mar 2006 Donald E. Paden wrote:
Do NOT rename the file. The file name should
remain "GeoExtraCodes.txt".
The section that needs to be changed should
look like this:
Donald, this is *bad* advice!!
The files as received from Millennia should *not*
be edited. These
files may need to be replaced by Millennia as
part of an update. If
that happens then the user's edits will either be
lost or the
original file will not be updated.
Millennia's instructions are to *copy* the file
you wish to
edit/change and rename it by adding "-Alt"
immediately ahead of the
period -- so for the above file the user's edited
version would be
GeoExtraCodes-Alt.txt The instructions further
say "It's important
that you make copies and don't change the
original files. If
you edit the original files and change the
filedate then you may not
get updates of the files with new builds. So,
copy the files and
work with the ones you added the -Alt to the
name."
When Legacy needs to use one of these Geo files
it first checks to
see if an -Alt file exists and if so it uses it
instead of the
Millennia-provided one.
Cheers, -- Dave N.
--
David Naylor, Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada.
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