----------------------------------------------------------------------- Lord Life version 1.15 ... DOCUMENTATION ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: You may ***NEED*** to run a fossil driver to make this program work over the modem...for example BNU works nicely. -=CONTENTS=- Section 1.1 --HOW TO CONTACT ME-- Section 1.2 --BLANK-- Section 1.3 --NORMAL REGISTRATION-- Section 1.4 --BUG UPDATES-- Section 1.5 --INTRODUCTION-- ----> Section 2.0 -=INSTALLATION=- <----**** Section 2.1 --CUSTOMIZATION-- -=-=-=-=-=- ------------ Section 1.1 ------ PROBLEMS? EMAIL ME: gaidin@valleynet.bc.ca OR LEAVE ME (Trevor Kooy) A MESSAGE ON ARCTIC ERA: (604)852-1447 ---------------- !!!!! PLEASE PUT LORD LIFE IN IT's OWN DIRECTORY -- I hate a cluttered lord directory!!! ---Many IGMs need to go into Lords directory -- BUT NOT THIS ONE!!!!!!! !!!!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Section 1.2 ------ --THIS SECTION INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------ Section 1.3 ------ Normal registration --------- Normal registration has been set at $10. Registration buys you a legal fully featured version...New features will be coming soon, and the registration also entitles you to all upcoming versions... You just cannot lose...Purchase your registration TODAY! :) See the file: lifereg.txt for the registration form. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------ Section 1.4 ------ Bug Updates --------------- --CORRECTED A BUG IN THE LIFECFG.EXE program...it should now install into the 3rdparty.dat properly...at some point in changing things...it got messed up, now its ok. --CORRECTED BUG WITH INFO.* FILE WHICH COULD CAUSE A CRASH AFTER EXIT FROM LORD LIFE. --Corrected a small bug...which could cause big problems in earlier versions--pre version 1.05e --Corrected some other bugs which may have been causing the program to crash some bbs's ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Section 1.5 ------ INTRODUCTION ------------------ 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: This version of Lord Life is still being enhanced... I have taken precautions to make this version bug free... It SHOULD be free of errors but may not be. NO WARRANTIES are given for this product...A registration form is included... see lifereg.txt... Lord life should be fully multi-node compatable. It uses strict file locking routines. Note:Life should be immediatly compatable with whatever lord is. Life uses the path to drop file provided by lord's node.1 file, if you allow it...otherwise it only uses info.1... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Section 2.0 ------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.0 INSTALLATION <------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Be sure you unzipped the file: LIFE.ZIP Simply run: lifecfg.exe -Then it should detect that you have not installed then it will let you install. Once your done (Q)uit the installer and that's it! -Give it the paths..with a backslash at the end as it asks for...answer a couple other quick questions and thats it!...It will then be installed. Note: If you have already placed it in the 3rdparty.def from an earlier version hit 'N' for no when it asks if it should add itself to the 3rdparty.dat ------------------ ------------ Section 2.1 ------ Custimization... ------------------ 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Info on how these files work is supplied in: PROEDIT.TXT --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- That is all for now...gotta get back to programming this thing! :) --------------------------------------------------------------------------