Mikero's Dos Tools

[Mikero]

The Dos Tool kit contains over twenty different exe's to ease the burden, chief among them

Make/ExtractPbo
Rapify/Derapify/LintCheck : all cpp' rvmat and mission sqm's
ConvertWrp: to pew
MoveObject: absolute must for repathing p3d's, wrps, and rvmats

Eliteness: An all in one gui that works from ofp cwc thru to Arrowead. You can inspect the inner contents of p3d, rtm, pbo's, fxy,wss, wrp, pew and etc etc.

:Powerful lintchecking on most file formats to checkfor corruption and or missing files.

:Make and extract pbo's, wash the dishes and make coffee too.

The heart of all Dos Tools and Eliteness is dePbo.dll. This dll is in a continuous state of refinement, and has been consistenly upgraded for past 5 years.

Dos Tools Home Page

http://dev-heaven.net/projects/mikero-pbodll/files

Enjoy

[Sickboy]

Best PBO Tools hands down! Generates good formats, and has a more paranoid parser that informs you about errors and warnings where others would simply ignore and move on.
Not to mention all the other useful and cool tools that are available, like MoveObject, etc.

ACE, CBA and my personal projects are built with these babies since the beginning.
Mikero also provides great support for his tools.

Some tips for GUI/windows explorer right click menu-users; You can use FileMenu Tools to easily get windows explorer, right click, Unpack PBO, Pack PBO, Rapify PBO, Rapify Config, etc etc.

Thanks Mikero!

[IceBreakr]

Without Mikero's tools I would be still hex-hacking my first map
Tnx Mikero for all your hard work. And special tnx to SgtAce, Kju, Wld427, NZDFCrash, Sickboy and many other community members for providing much needed help and support.

[Fox '09]

First thing I install after bi tools. I use these daily in my workflow , and it is especially handy when you have more than one file to deal with .

Thanks, no qualms here - a solid peice of work

[nettrucker]

was looking for dpbo.dll couldn'y find it at first now I found what I was looking for.

[DiRaven]

The Dos Tool kit contains over twenty different exe's to ease the burden, chief among them

Make/ExtractPbo
Rapify/Derapify/LintCheck : all cpp' rvmat and mission sqm's
ConvertWrp: to pew
MoveObject: absolute must for repathing p3d's, wrps, and rvmats

Eliteness: An all in one gui that works from ofp cwc thru to Arrowead. You can inspect the inner contents of p3d, rtm, pbo's, fxy,wss, wrp, pew and etc etc.

:Powerful lintchecking on most file formats to checkfor corruption and or missing files.

:Make and extract pbo's, wash the dishes and make coffee too.

The heart of all Dos Tools and Eliteness is dePbo.dll. This dll is in a continuous state of refinement, and has been consistenly upgraded for past 5 years.

Dos Tools Home Page

http://dev-heaven.net/projects/mikero-pbodll/files

Enjoy

Won't you mind If I include your tools into an IDE project I'm working on?

[Mikero]

depbo.dll / depbo.lib.so (linux) , and all it's accompanying exe's, including all source code, are without restrictions of any kind. As the eula states, if it causes your mother in law to drop down dead, or your wife to run off with your secretary. Sue me.

you are free to hack belt and bash it into any form or product that gives you a thrill.

Depbo.dll has become the benchmark standard, you'd be insane, NOT to use it

[DiRaven]

Just curious, why do windows EXE's (MakePbo.exe, for instance) send all the output with the help from the dry run (did not yet check the rest) via ErrorStream instead of regular Input(Output)Stream?

[Mikero]

Just curious, why do windows EXE's (MakePbo.exe, for instance) send all the output with the help from the dry run (did not yet check the rest) via ErrorStream instead of regular Input(Output)Stream?

am rather hopeful this is not correct.

The exe's distinguish between 'status' information (what the dll is doing / has found) and 'what the customer wanted'

An example would be a DIR listing of pbo content. typically

extractpbo -LB (list brief) SomePbo > pipe.txt

'what the customer wanted' was a file looking very similar to a dos dir/b somefolder >pipe.txt

ie something to feed directly into a renamer a deleter an excel file,etc.

to achieve that. the standard finishing line "No Errors" is sent to stderr, not, stdio

if you find this is not the case. raise a ticket at dev heaven please.
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Oh, and PS *all* exe tools return 0 (No Error) status or an errocode which is typically used in a bat file as

for (whatever)
{
SomeDll.Exe -options file
if errorlevel 1 goto bugger
}

[Phlogios]

Not sure if this is the right place to post this,
but ArmA2P broke my Buldozer.
I thought it was just a freak accident, so I did this:

I deleted everything in the P: drive.
I reinstalled BI Tools 2.5.1, and ran Oxygen 2 and started Buldozer. It worked.
Then I ran ArmA2P, let it churn for a couple of minutes, then it gave me an error message while extracting ui.pbo. Apparently the SHA is mismatched, and ArmA2P stopped running.
I figured it would be fine anyway, so I started Oxygen 2 and now I can't run Buldozer.
I have repeated this procedure 3 times, and it always works with a clean install of BI Tools, but stops working after ArmA2P has run. And it always fails at the same file, ui.pbo.

All I want is to have the ArmA 2 files extracted on the P drive so I can use the env maps in buldozer.