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ok, so i am trying to give something back to the community but when asking for help i am met with deletion of posts so i am trying one more time.
i have read through the tutorials
i have got 3ds max 5
i have dloaded the tools. but i have a slight but significant problem,

i have extracted the sfs files and have the converter.
example;-

opened a set of extracted sfs files for a cockpit with the converter and can see it in the viewer
saved them as .3ds in another folder
opened 3ds max 5
this is where it goes wrong, i try to open the cockpit in max and it tells me it is the incorrect format.