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.


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