Schedule Library data found!

JCitron

Trainzing since 12-2003
I found it! The Schedule Library data is saved to the session profile.dat created with the route session. Though the data can't be edited, unless you have the guts to edit the hex data, associated with it, we can at least view the information and save it out should the schedule be recreated again by re entering in the commands at a later time.

This is a workaround I suppose for something that can be somewhat of a pain in the you know where when it comes to sessions. We go through the trouble of setting up a session, only to have to delete it for some reason, and end up re-entering in the information all over again. With the information saved, at least we don't have to hunt all over Hell's creek and Creation as we search for the route track marks and industry names. By saving this info to a text file, we can simply refer to the text file as the commands are entered back into the driver's command window, or into the schedule library.

Using a read-only file viewer, I opened up the Profile.dat and searched for a known string which brought up the driver commands as laid out in the Schedule Library. Being read-only meant I didn't destroy the file in error by hitting a key and then saving by mistake. There is no way to save the file! For my purposes I used an old Microsoft tool, available from their downloads, called List.exe. List is an updated version of browse.com and list.com which I had used back in the 1990s for the same purpose. There's nothing like finding command-level tool still working even on today's modern computers.


John
 
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