[NormR2]

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

[inquiry]

NormR2, 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.

[NormR2]

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

Norm

[ShiftyMan]

inquiry, on 2013-April-20, 21:45, said:

There is a variety of ways to do this....

Thanks for that, very helpful. Do you know off the top of your head a way to do this in reverse: PBN to LIN?
I often use DMPRO for conversions, but these days it crashes frequently on newer versions of Windows. So if I have a PBN file, getting it back to LIN to go into BBO can be irritating and I'd love a fast way to do it.

Thanks!

[mycroft]

I'm using this. It's *very sensitive* to formatting, there are valid PBN files that it will totally garbage out on, but it works like a charm for "practise hands into BBO".

[ShiftyMan]

Thanks!