Subj : LORD buglet
To : Sean Dennis
From : Donald Tidmore
Date : Sat May 19 2007 05:46 pm
> Hello, Michael.
>I'm having that weird problem again with the latest DOS release (the one off o
> Gameport's site). LORDCFG is saying that it's incompatible with my current
> install of LORD. Unfortunately, I don't have a current install of LORD; just
> this new one. Do you have a solution to that?
> Later, > Sean
> //
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I somehow ended up with that same situation today, and what happened to me, may
be what you are dealing with. The LORDCFG.EXE for DOS LORD v4.08 beta is
183,440 bytes, dated 09-23-2006. Somehow, it got replaced with the one from
LORD/32, which is 463,360 bytes in size. I was trying to use LORDCFG after one
of my igms crashed and I had to close down that DOS window. LORD has a problem
sometimes when that happens and you re-enter the game with the same character.
So I was going to use Lordcfg to reset the On_now flag for that player to
False. Lpedit can't do it correctly due to some changes Preslar made that
change content of playext.dat and playext2.dat in relation to the on_now flag's
status.
If you try to use a LORDCFG.EXE from Lord/32 with a DOS LORD game, it gives you
error messages and unhandled exception errors in particular. And it says stuff
like this when you try to use Node Configuration: "The node config is only
used by LORD for DOS.". When I saw that, I finally figured out that my
LORDCFG.EXE from my Lord/32 game had replaced the one needed by DOS LORD. So I
unzipped lordcfg.exe from the lord.zip in l408b-d1.zip beta archive for DOS
Lord 4.08 beta, and things started working right again.
So make sure that your lordcfg.exe is the RIGHT one, for the version of Lord
you are using. Oh and you can't edit a player.dat file used by DOS LORD using
the LORDCFG Player Editor if that is the one for LORD/32 I found out. That
resulted in another of those aggravating "unhandled exception error" messages.
I also came across a LORD data file today that I had never noticed before, or
seen before, named netlord.dat. Its a binary file, and I don't know what its
purpose is.
Hope this info on what happened to me if of use to you and others.
Incidentally, I don't think Preslar is paying attention to Fidonet's Lord echo
any more, since he has not been around here in several months. Donald
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