Subj : Re: Need help with LordMenu utility
To   : Donald Tidmore
From : Scott Adams
Date : Thu Jan 11 2007 12:14 am

 -=> Quoting Donald Tidmore to Scott Adams <=-

 > 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.

 DT> The program itself is fairly short, so I'll copy it here from the
 DT> Wordpad program for you. 
 DT> http://www.fidotel.com/public/camelot/IGM-Code/lpe-code.zip archive
 DT> online has the Chasattr.pas and Chasware.pas files that I used with
 DT> the program, and LordLock is the basic unit from DDIGM and DDPLUS. 
 DT> The basic problem is that I don't really understand the code --
 DT> created by Robert Fogt over a dozen years ago, -- especially in
 DT> regards to how it creates the 3rdalt.txt file.  The end-result however
 DT> will not work in LORD due to the individual lines going up to 1,000
 DT> spaces each.

        Yeah.  That's probably the biggest issue.  Most line feeds
        in code only got 128 characters.  I'm not sure why he
        would make lines that big.

 DT> Bjorn Felten thinks he can solve the problem by having the program
 DT> write the ansi strings to an *.ANS file, and then changing its
 DT> filename to 3rdalt.txt. I just don't do ANSI coding very much, so its
 DT> been difficult to fix the program myself.  And others who have tried
 DT> are busy with other projects, or they don't have a working solution
 DT> yet.  SO I really appreciate your help guys with the situation.  Lloyd
 DT> Hannesson was handling the program but he got tired of BBS's and LORD
 DT> stuff, and retired completely from doing both in Fall 2005.  Donald.

     Did you check out SWAG the ansi section?  If I recall it has
     a whole file on ansi codes and pretty easy to figure out.
     If Bjorn can't help you I'll see what i can.  But the file
     and code is big.  If you have specific questions or something
     for me to look for please let me know.  Otherwise i'd just
     be reading line by line and not sure what to look for
     exactly.  :)

     Is it just the Ansi stuff?


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