Subj : Need help with LordMenu utility
To   : All
From : Donald Tidmore
Date : Sat Dec 30 2006 12:15 am

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I need to know if anyone with a LOT of Pascal coding experience can try their
hand at fixing the LordMenu utility.  I've tried to do it and have no idea how
to do it.  Its written for compilation in either Turbo Pascal or Borland
Pascal, and neither one has any known way to force the program to write strings
of ANSI characters to a file, so that the file does not contain lines longer
than 128 spaces.  

Michael Preslar found out back in 2005 when LORDMENU's 3rdalt.txt files stopped
working with LORD v4.07 (beta at the time), that the problem was that LordMenu
was writing lines to the file that were a thousand or so characters long per
line.  And as a result, LORD started choking on the files.

I tried once to rewrite Lordmenu using Virtual Pascal, but could not figure out
how to do that correctly.  I would appreciate it very much if someone could fix
the stupid program permanently to write ansi lines that would not exceed 128
spaces in length.

I've got the program's source code online at my Castle Camelot web-site. URL is
http://www.fidotel.com/public/camelot/IGM-Code/lm2-code.zip 

Please let me know if anyone is able to figure out a solution to this problem. 
Various people including Jay Hodges and Michael Preslar have tried to fix
LordMenu, but to date, no one has succeeded in fixing the 3rdalt.txt problem.  
Thanks, Donald.

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