Sun Apr 20, 2003 7:55 pm
Automatic extractor for BINI files -- unBINI
I wanted to bulk-unpack my BINI files, but didn't have the patience to get BiniQDU working on my system to see if it would do it for me. I ended up writing this Python script to do it for me 
. It expects to be run in your Freelancer folder, and have BINI.exe in either the same folder or a subfolder. It will search the DATA folder and all subfolders for BINIs and decompress them. The original, compressed file gets renamed from "file.ini" to "file.bini" and "file.ini" gets replaced with the uncompressed version.
The "script" version requires a working copy of a recent version of Python to work (I used v2.2.2 to develop it, but I didn't use anything really new), but should work on any system (even mac, linux, etc.). The "runtime" version only works on Windows, but doesn't need Python, it's just unpack-and-go.
unBINI_script (544 bytes)
unBINI_runtime (653 K)
Edited by - Dark Ryder on 20-04-2003 20:55:14
. It expects to be run in your Freelancer folder, and have BINI.exe in either the same folder or a subfolder. It will search the DATA folder and all subfolders for BINIs and decompress them. The original, compressed file gets renamed from "file.ini" to "file.bini" and "file.ini" gets replaced with the uncompressed version.
The "script" version requires a working copy of a recent version of Python to work (I used v2.2.2 to develop it, but I didn't use anything really new), but should work on any system (even mac, linux, etc.). The "runtime" version only works on Windows, but doesn't need Python, it's just unpack-and-go.
unBINI_script (544 bytes)
unBINI_runtime (653 K)
Edited by - Dark Ryder on 20-04-2003 20:55:14