playing hands from a .lin file

[kfgauss]

I'd like to play hands (with a foursome) from a .lin file (e.g. instant mp games that I've converted to .lin from Richard Pavlicek's site or old vugraph hands). Are there easy ways to do this? As far as I know, my options are:

 

1) Use a teaching table. Then, if I'm host, I'll see all the hands or I'll need to find a fifth to host (who will also send each new hand when appropriate).

 

2) Use a total points table, and separate the hands into different .lin files, one for each hand (when using a total points table, it seems only capable of handling one hand at a time).

 

3) Possibly (I'm not sure about this) set up a tournament (with only one table) and use prepared deals, and be a playing director.

 

This last option, if possible, sounds the most desirable of the three (of course, if there's an easier way I'm missing, please let me know). I haven't run tournaments before -- could I become a director to do this?

 

Thanks,

Andy

 

[Edit: actually, I seem to be wrong about total points and it doesn't seem to do single deals even. Re-edit: I'm not sure about this actually, as I thought it worked at some point, but maybe only when 4 people were sitting at the table, though I could be misremembering]

[chicken]

we have been through all of this a year ago. @ the moment uploading ur own lin file to play with 4 persons isnt possible. the tourney solution doesnt work because the minimum number of tables is three.

a lot of people especially teachers would like to have this feature but actually it is not on the first places of the legendary "to do"-list.