thanks, Martin, that was the perfect solution!

Andrew

Taglines have gone out of fashion, but I still like mine.  The trouble is that the collection goes back to the late 1990's and

I would like to delete some of the collection - and add some new "funnies".

But I cannot find my original text file, which was compiled with  rescom.exe into rquotes.rsc, and then copied to become

rquotes.pms.  Is there a way to "uncompile" rquotes.pms to get back to a text file?

 thanks for any help!

A

Have you  tried the Plato extension yet? It can do what you ask with a currently in use quotes file and export it as a text file.

http://home.zonnet.nl/l.salters/PlatoSetup121.exe

I have used the  older Plato 1.20 version for a long time both to import and export and to manage and compile or recompile my quotes files.

Just open rquote.pms in a text-editor and delete the "cryptic" charakters at the beginning. Then you should be able to reformat and save your taglines and create a new rquotes.r (you can use MKQUOT from the download section for doing this).

If you open rquotes.pms with the Windows/DOS 16-bit EDIT.COM, there should be linebreaks at the correct position.

HTH

Martin