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i have minetest-0.4.7-72b9b0f-fixes-win32 and i want to put a texture pack in it...where in the texture folder do i put it

There should be a textures folder.
In that folder there will be a default textures folder
And a place_textures_here.txt

that i know but the only things in the texture folder is a text doc. and a folder called base and inside that folder is another folder called pack...so where do i put the texture pack that i want

You put the folder with all the textures in the same folder as the text doc and the base folder.

Basically:
minetest-0.4.7-72b9b0f-fixes-win32\textures