Ive downloaded a plugin, but all Ive got is this sma file – what do I do with it?
Firstly if you are on linux you need to make sure your “sma” file contains linux style line-feed only characters at the end of each line, not windows style carriage return line-feeds. There are at least 7 ways to do this: • unzip the plugin’s zip file on linux providing the -a option to the unzip program. • ftp the sma file (not the zip) to linux using ASCII mode in your ftp application. • Run Wraith’s Converters on a windows machine to convert the sma files to linux format. • Download Ravenous Bugblatter Beast’s versions of compile and compile_all which can compile unconverted sma files. • Load it into textpad on windows and choose UNIX as the file format in the save as dialog. • Run it through the dos2unix program on linux. • If all else fails, load it into a text editor, find all occurrences of // and delete everything on those lines from the // onwards. Then you can compile the windows version on linux. If necessary remember to convert any include (.inc) files as well as the sma fi
