alias sound

[bigjohn]

what is the best letters and or numbers to alias sound ?
I have a few downloaded engines that have the wrong aliasing and darn it I've forgot how to do this simple thing.
bigjohn

[derekmorton]

There is no best, the alias MUST point to a sound set somewhere.

[bigjohn]

Derek: yes you are very correct
I used this to fix my stupid problem ..\\..\\common.snd\\710G3-startup\\710-G3_startcab(UP).sms
also the same for the engine. now thy work as intended wuppee
thanks for your quick response
bigjohn

[CSRX]

Derek: yes you are very correct
I used this to fix my stupid problem ..\\..\\common.snd\\710G3-startup\\710-G3_startcab(UP).sms
also the same for the engine. now thy work as intended wuppee
thanks for your quick response
bigjohn

Definitely easy to forget.
I've also used "..//..//etc" for the alias set up, and works okay for me.
I have noticed either is used and works fine.

[bigjohn]

Dfter all, this time spent working on MSTS to fix or modding you would expect that a person could do this simple thing.
Shawn: I've used that way also .
I thank all who have helped in the past A little miss in punctuation and Bamm errors funny that.
Anyway all are fixed ,these engines are for OR so thank you again.

[derekmorton]

With all of the stuff we tip onto the head, something has to fall out the other end, I only have a limited capacity!

[slipperman]

Hi,
While on the subject of aliasing, may I mention that you will occasionally see a single '../' used instead of '..//' or '..\\'. The important point is that MSTS doesn't accept a single back-slash ('..\') as a path separator, but, strangely, will display them when showing a path!

The readme for my MSTS_Check utility has an Appendix describing aliasing, for those interested
Caveat : It does require updating on some details but should give a general idea.

Cheers,
Ged

[bigjohn]

Ged, I will read all I can get my old hands-on, my great-grandson is in trains, so MSTS is a good start(before watching real trains) we live on the Mojave sub and see UP and NSF all day every day very cool for a train guy.