HOW TO?

[Birdey]

i have searched this site for "covert and dos" and "convertion and dos" but anything relevent.... can someone help

i need to convert a dos exe to a windows exe..... i have tried to use that "win-dos graphics converter" but it only useful for grf files...

i have also tried to use the grf wizzard but it is only for encoding/decodeing grf files...

thankz in advanced

Birdey

[DaleStan]

I assume you already have the GRFCodec package?
Use grdtogrf to create grf file from the exe.
Then convert the grf from DOS format to Win format in whatever way seems best to you. I use a batchfile:

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@echo off
grfcodec -d %1.grf
grfcodec -em 0 %1.grf
grfcodec -dp 2 %1.grf

And type eg:
>DOS2Win Chinook
The last line may be omitted if you don't want its effect; it replaces the DOS-paletted PCX with a Windows-paletted PCX. For historical reasons, I use Win palette by default, so this is the effect I want.

[Wile E. Coyote]

i have tried to use that "win-dos graphics converter" but it only useful for grf files...

Yes, current version converts only GRFs, I'll certainly do version with EXEs converting when I'll have more time to do that
Watch following topic for new version:
http://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=12734