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How to convert a .lin file to a .pbn file

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Posted 2013-April-20, 16:16

When I Save a movie from a played hand that I'd like to play in an offline bridge playing program I get a .lin file.
Is there a way to convert that file to a .pbn file. I have two programs on windows that can read and play .pbn files.

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Norm
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Posted 2013-April-20, 21:45

View PostNormR2, on 2013-April-20, 16:16, said:

When I Save a movie from a played hand that I'd like to play in an offline bridge playing program I get a .lin file.
Is there a way to convert that file to a .pbn file. I have two programs on windows that can read and play .pbn files.

Thanks,
Norm


There is a variety of ways to do this. One way that works for me is to use "Bridge Composer" (website: http://bridgecomposer.com/ ), it is not shareware, it cost 19.95, but you can download it for free and try it for 30 days. Open the lin file in this program and then save it, it will save as a pbn with the same file name.

A free way to do this is download the double dummy solver from bridge captain (web page http://www.bridgecap...m/download.html, look for the download double dummy solver link at the bottom of the page). Simply open the lin file with the double dummy solver and then save the file, it will save it as PBN.

Another free way to do this is use Richard Pavlicek's old MS-DOS utility called bridge file converter. Apparently this has been updated to run on any windows machine.. see his webpage here... http://www.rpbridge.net/rput.htm and look for Bridge File Converter

If you want to spend a lot of money, you can purchase Dealmaster pro, import lin files, and then export the ones you want. When I get hands I want to save I load them into dealmaster pro, where I can add tags like squeeze, or bath coup or triple squeeze, etc and find later. But the hands can be output to pbn form that.

Hope one of these will be satisfactory for you.




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Posted 2013-April-22, 12:08

Thanks. I'll give the double dummy solver a try.

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