Subj : Re: Need help with LordMenu utility
To : Donald Tidmore
From : Scott Adams
Date : Thu Jan 04 2007 01:30 am
-=> Quoting Donald Tidmore to All <=-
DT> I need to know if anyone with a LOT of Pascal coding experience can
DT> try their hand at fixing the LordMenu utility. I've tried to do it
DT> and have no idea how to do it. Its written for compilation in either
DT> Turbo Pascal or Borland Pascal, and neither one has any known way to
DT> force the program to write strings of ANSI characters to a file, so
DT> that the file does not contain lines longer than 128 spaces.
DT> Michael Preslar found out back in 2005 when LORDMENU's 3rdalt.txt
DT> files stopped working with LORD v4.07 (beta at the time), that the
DT> problem was that LordMenu was writing lines to the file that were a
DT> thousand or so characters long per line. And as a result, LORD
DT> started choking on the files.
DT> I tried once to rewrite Lordmenu using Virtual Pascal, but could not
DT> figure out how to do that correctly. I would appreciate it very much
DT> if someone could fix the stupid program permanently to write ansi
DT> lines that would not exceed 128 spaces in length.
DT> I've got the program's source code online at my Castle Camelot
DT> web-site. URL is
DT>
http://www.fidotel.com/public/camelot/IGM-Code/lm2-code.zip
DT> Please let me know if anyone is able to figure out a solution to this
DT> problem. Various people including Jay Hodges and Michael Preslar have
DT> tried to fix LordMenu, but to date, no one has succeeded in fixing the
DT> 3rdalt.txt problem. Thanks, Donald.
Would've helped to see the code here. I'll forget to go to the
URL :). But doing Ansi isn't that hard. Have you checked
out Swag it has a whole section just on Ansi source codes.
... "I'm paying off karma at a vastly accelerated rate" - Ivanova.
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