Route-Riter v6.2.00 - Full Version
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This is virtually a 50percent re-write of the original Route-Riter.


INSTALLATION
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1. To run this program, you MUST have Microsoft .Net Framework v1.1 from
   http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=262d25e3-f589-4842-8157-034d1e7cf3a3&DisplayLang=en
   installed on your computer, (Go to Control Panel/Add-Remove Programs and check
   for the Microsoft .Net Framework v1.1 entry. 
   
2. You MUST have a Java Runtime Environment installed before installing this 
   version of Route-Riter - You can download one from 
   http://www.java.com/en site - Click on the Get It NOw
   button and it will be automatically installed on your system (if Java is 
   already installed, you will be sent to a screen which says 'Java  Software
   Installed')
   
   
3. Unzip this archive into a temporary folder, and click the
   Route_Riter62.exe and follow the prompts.
   
   The following programs will be installed, in the main Route-Riter folder:-
   a. Aceit.exe
   b. TGATools2a.exe
   
   Okrasa's new .dll and token file are  installed
   when the InitTokens.bat file runs automatically at the completion
   of installation. This brings up a DOS box and takes some time to run,
   you will need to press any key at the end of the uninstall of the 
   Tokens, then again after the Tokens are successfully installed.
    

New in v6.2.00
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a) New versions of Okrasa Ghia's .dll to speed up compress/uncompress
functions.

b) New buttons on the Activities/Stock tab have all been fixed:-
Correct Names in .eng files - When you check rolling-stock in Conbuilder
you frequently get errors complaining about Wagon/Engine names being
in the wrong case - This option goes through selected .eng files and 
rewrites all Engine/Wagon names in identical case.
Fix Loco Sounds - Fixes aliased sound addressed in selected .sms files

If you check all your Locomotives with Conbuilder and have the 'Check Sounds'
button also selected, you might get literally thousands of Sound errors. In
my case this was 6500 faulty locos and 600 faulty wagons.

RR will now correct many of these errors if you click the 'Fix .sms files' button.

RR will correct all sound aliases it finds in the .SMS files, add quotes
around .wav files where these are omitted (Conbuilder reports these as errors)
and fixes some other small errors.

On my installation, when I re-ran Conbuilder after this operation, Loco errors
had reduced from 6500 to 660, i.e. 90pct were fixed and for Wagon errors it
reduced from 600 to zero. It then took me about 2 hours with a text editor to
manually fix the other errors Conbuilder reported (these were mainly either missing
.wav files, or spelling mistakes in file names).

d) A new version of TsUtils (v3.1) is included courtesy of Carl-Heinz Rave. This
version includes the ability to merge two routes.

Route_Riter6 now has a separate registry entry to earlier versions, so
MSTS paths etc saved in one version do not change the other version.

The new HELP file covers all the latest options as above, and many more.

Please advise of any problems.

Mike Simpson - 20th Jan 2005
virtualtrains@optushome.com.au
http://members.optusnet.com.au/virtualtrains

