Re: unreadable text

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From: Malke (malke_at_nospoonnotreally.com)
Date: 09/04/04 

Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 15:09:13 -0700

Keith wrote:

> I downloaded an iso image of a game,extracted it to a folder but could
> not read any of the text files as they were all garbled fonts.Also the
> install file wouldn't open.The message on the failed opening on the
> windows installer file was" the file isn't recognized as a windows
> installer file".I've downloaded other games and never came across this
> problem before,any ideas?

What program did you use to extract the .iso file to the folder? Usually
you just burn .iso files ("burn image" as opposed to a simple data disk
burn).

Malke 

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