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               Lord Life version 1.05e beta ...  DOCUMENTATION
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    --Corrected a small bug...which could cause big problems
    in earlier versions.  

    IMPORTANT:  This will soon be tested on multi-node setup...but
      until then...I THINK IT WILL WORK MULTI-NODE...BUT I AM NOT
      SURE.  

    Note:  This version of Lord Life is still in beta testing mode...
      It SHOULD be free of errors but may not be.  NO WARRANTIES are 
      given for this product...BUT THIS VERSION CANNOT BE REGISTERED...
      IT IS TOTALLY FREE FOR NOW...
      That may not continue...but registration will not be too
      expensive when later versions need to be registered. :)


      Congradulations on picking up lord life.  I hope it does everything you
    could ever ask an IGM to to, and I hope it works with your bbs
    system!

    Note:Life should be immediatly compatable with whatever lord is.  
         Life uses the path to drop file provided by lord's node.1 file.
         Whatever drop file odoors v5 and lord can use...so should lord
         life be able to use.

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1.0  INSTALLATION    <------------------------------------------------
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Note:  This will change very soon...to become much easier.
      But for now...do this:

  step 1:  At the dos promt run: life.exe
                -You give it the path to lord and the path to life
              and it creates a file called lifevals.cfg...
            BE SURE TO ENTER IT IN THE FORMAT THE EXAMPLE IS GIVIN
            BY THAT I MEAN MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A \ backslash AT THE
            END OF THE PATH YOU SUPPLY.
    Note:  If an error ever develops with lifevals.cfg
       erase it before running life again to reset it. 
       
  step 2:  Since the configuration program has not really been created
         yet you need to add two lines to the file: 3rdparty.dat
         which is located in your lord directory...
         So edit that file and add the full command line for lord
         life including a star after to tell lord to insert node
         ie:  C:\LORDLIFE\LIFE.EXE *
         Then add a line that the users will see...
         ie:  `1Lord `9Life `%v`9er`21.00a beta
  step 3:  Simply run it with lord.
         or if the dorinfo1.def file supplied in this zip is still here
         you can run life /l for local or the local bat from dos.
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2.0  Custimization...
  At the moment there really is no REAL config program to speak of...
But that is not really a problem at present with LORD LIFE!
Lord life is 100% configurable!  Everything can be changed just with
Edit...If you know how...

    * THE FILES TO LOOK AT ARE CALLED:   MAINTXT.DAT
                                         TRISTXT.DAT
                                         MYSTTXT.DAT
                                         WEAPTXT.DAT
                                         BANKTXT.DAT
                                         INNTXT.DAT
                                         BARTXT.DAT
                                         ARMTXT.DAT
                                         PUBTXT.DAT
                                         TRAINTXT.DAT
                                         JOUSTTXT.DAT

          WARNING:  YOU WILL SCREW IT UP EVENTUALLY IF YOU MAKE
            ANY CHANGES...IT IS KINDA CRYPTIC.
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    Info on how these files work is supplied in:   PROEDIT.TXT
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    * THERE IS BACKUP FILES FOR EVERY *.DAT...they are 
        contained in the backups.zip...if you unzip that
        in your life directory all dats will return to the
        way they were when you recieved lord life.
        ie:  so if you mess up your dats...unzip that file in
        your life directory and all dats will work again.

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That is all for now...gotta get back to programming this thing! :)
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