pcx carsets

I purchased the Nascar Hints & Strategy guide a couple of weeks ago. Just got around to the CD that comes with it. The carsets that are included don't seem to be accessible through Paintkit. Are they write-protected or something? I'm only interested in getting one of the cars from the NFL carset. I don't want the whole set of them. Any suggestions or explanation would be appreciated. Happy Racin', LC -- #2, #41, #5, then everyone else, then #3 - that's my dream! ===================================================================== {Home Page} http://www.mainelink.net/~lcinme {NASCAR Racing Sim Page} http://www.mainelink.net/~lcinme/pnr/pnr.html

<<I purchased the Nascar Hints & Strategy guide a couple of weeks ago. Just got around to the CD that comes with it. The carsets that are included don't seem to be accessible through Paintkit.>> Ahh... don't forget it's on your CD-ROM drive, hence the files will be read-only. Copy them to your hard drive and you should be able to tweak to your heart's content. Nick _________________________________________________________________ #6 & #94 in the *real* quest for the Cup!!! My home away from home... http://users.aol.com/ntotoro/122895.htm _________________________________________________________________

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> <<I purchased the Nascar Hints & Strategy guide a couple of weeks > ago. Just got around to the CD that comes with it. The carsets that are > included don't seem to be accessible through Paintkit.>> > Ahh... don't forget it's on your CD-ROM drive, hence the files will > be read-only. Copy them to your hard drive and you should be able to > tweak to your heart's content. > Nick

Thanks Nick, Your suggestion wasn't exactly what I needed to do, but it gave me an idea. It turns out that even when you copy the files to your hard drive, they are still read-only, so in Windows you must go into "properties" and uncheck "read-only". It least that's what *I* needed to do. Just thought I'd post this in case anyone else had this problem. Happy racin', LC -- #2, #41, #5, then everyone else, then #3 - that's my dream! ===================================================================== {Home Page} http://www.mainelink.net/~lcinme {NASCAR Racing Sim Page} http://www.mainelink.net/~lcinme/pnr/pnr.html

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>Subject: Re: pcx carsets >Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 17:54:31 -0500 > <<I purchased the Nascar Hints & Strategy guide a couple of weeks >ago. Just got around to the CD that comes with it. The carsets that are >included don't seem to be accessible through Paintkit.>> > Ahh... don't forget it's on your CD-ROM drive, hence the files will >be read-only. Copy them to your hard drive and you should be able to >tweak to your heart's content. > Nick

You must change the file attribute from "read only" to "archive". I hope this helps, John

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> I purchased the Nascar Hints & Strategy guide a couple of weeks ago. > Just got around to the CD that comes with it. The carsets that are > included don't seem to be accessible through Paintkit. Are they > write-protected or something? I'm only interested in getting one of the > cars from the NFL carset. I don't want the whole set of them. Any > suggestions or explanation would be appreciated. > Happy Racin', > LC > -- > #2, #41, #5, then everyone else, then #3 - that's my dream!

Yes, they are write protected, you copied them from a cd-rom right? Cd-rom's are always write protected. You need to change the file attributes so it is not "read only". Then it will work. Justin -- *********************************************** Justin VonHagen, Malvern PA USA http://www.csc.vill.edu/~vonhagen Is that enough? I could give more. ***********************************************

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>I purchased the Nascar Hints & Strategy guide a couple of weeks ago. >Just got around to the CD that comes with it. The carsets that are >included don't seem to be accessible through Paintkit. Are they >write-protected or something? I'm only interested in getting one of the >cars from the NFL carset. I don't want the whole set of them. Any >suggestions or explanation would be appreciated. >Happy Racin',

The stuff is flagged READ ONLY when you copy it off the CDROM.. change the attributes of the file from read-only and you can edit them with paintkit. Weyr