[Red_Raven]

you may remember my 'mines' question from a week ago, and thank you all for your help. i figured the best way to approach this is to simply create another 'ship class' in the ships.tbl. well, after going in and copy/paste/edit stuff i needed, i went to 'Save As' and saved it as Ships.tbl in the tables directory. when i opened it in the .tbl editor, all i got was gibberish. i've tried editing these files in MS word, notepad, and wordpad. nothing seems to work, i always end up with some kind of gibberish. is there some fundamental idea that i'm missing here? what's wrong?

[TheVirtu]

You're supposed to only goto file and save, since you clicked save as, you screwed up the table and now its only in word format.

[Killfrenzy]

Yeah - only SAVE. I did that mistake once - it took me AAAAAAAAAAges to recover everything!

[karajorma]

If you must use Save As you have to remember to save it as a text file.

It shouldn`t be too hard to recover if you start again from a fresh ships.tbl

Trying to recover the old one will probably take you much longer.

[Red_Raven]

thanks everyone. i'll try that. and thanks for being so patient as well.