Mogulbasher wrote me on the Links Corner website.
http://linkscorner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19196
"I wrote a 3D import from 3DS Max application but could never quite get the textures to work. MS use a modified LZW compression technology that I have no access to. I did get a spaceship to import but had to use one of the pre existing textures from an existing 3D object.
Project has been moth balled until I can get access to the source code if ever...A"