Messing with all.spawn in Clear Sky

[Y|yukichigai]

Right, so, I've got my handy-dandy acdc tool ready to go, but with Clear Sky it isn't cooperating. Apparently the version of the tool I have doesn't know how to parse the data blocks for campfires (and probably a few other things). Clearly other people have managed to edit all.spawn in Clear Sky. How?

[Nightwatch]

What version of the acdc are you using? exe or perl one, and what release? What steps are you taking in your attempt to open the all.spawn? What's your OS? (In Vista, you are advised to turn off the Defender, UAC shot-off is also a very good idea.)
There's a thread here on this forum, though it's about CoC, it may also help reminding a thing that may be relevant with with CS maybe, so have a look at it as well:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=218

[Y|yukichigai]

Right now I'm using the most current one linked on the Mod Wiki page (the one for version 1.005). I've tried to find a more current version (says it was last updated October of 2007) but I've come up with nothing. And I'm using the perl version.

I've created the batch files as instructed, and the perl runtime is installed. The script WORKS, it just clearly encounters an error when trying to parse campfires. I've tried manually editing the perl script myself so it'll figure out how to parse that info (hey, 5 years for a CS degree, I may as well do something with it) but apparently there are data offsets it needs to extract relevant info and I don't have the SLIGHTEST clue where to figure out those offsets or the variables they correspond to. Using the built-in methods for other object types doesn't work. Oh, and I'm running Windows 7 Pro 64-bit, with UAC completely disabled.

The maddening part about this is that I KNOW other people have successfully edited Clear Sky's all.spawn (and Call of Pripyat's even). Is there another program people are using, or is there just a more updated version of acdc that I haven't found?