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Old 07-06-2011, 09:48 AM   #10
PeterT
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Well I did download a book in RB format from Baen and tried the tools out.

The approach I took was basic (and very non optimum) but let me at least describe what I did.

I unzipped the w32-rbmake-1.1.zip into a directory called D:\Downloads\Foobar and then copied the RB file I wanted to try into that directory as well.

Then, I opened a Windows command prompt and went to that directory
Code:
D:
cd \Downloads\Foobar
Finally I typed
Code:
rbburst.exe 0671578499.rb
and... tada... I had
Code:
06/07/2011  09:40 AM               341 000000-06715784.html
06/07/2011  09:40 AM               220 000000-06715784.info
06/07/2011  09:40 AM             1,380 000001-06715784.png
06/07/2011  09:40 AM             4,938 000002-06715784.html
06/07/2011  09:40 AM         1,118,753 000003-06715784.html
06/07/2011  09:40 AM            11,650 000004-06715784.png
06/07/2011  09:40 AM            10,156 000005-06715784.png
000000-06715784.html appears to be the "front page" for lack of a better term, and 000003-06715784.html is the full book.

Of course... this book I could ALSO directly convert with Calibre too ... so your mileage might well vary.
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