> Hello, Michael.
>I'm having that weird problem again with the latest DOS release (the one off o
> Gameport's site).  LORDCFG is saying that it's incompatible with my current
> install of LORD.  Unfortunately, I don't have a current install of LORD; just
> this new one.  Do you have a solution to that?
> Later, > Sean
> // sean{at}outpostbbs.net | http://outpostbbs.net | ICQ: 19965647

I somehow ended up with that same situation today, and what happened to me,
may be what you are dealing with.  The LORDCFG.EXE for DOS LORD v4.08 beta
is 183,440 bytes, dated 09-23-2006.  Somehow, it got replaced with the one
from LORD/32, which is 463,360 bytes in size.  I was trying to use LORDCFG
after one of my igms crashed and I had to close down that DOS window.  LORD
has a problem sometimes when that happens and you re-enter the game with
the same character.  So I was going to use Lordcfg to reset the On_now flag
for that player to False.  Lpedit can't do it correctly due to some changes
Preslar made that change content of playext.dat and playext2.dat in
relation to the on_now flag's status.

If you try to use a LORDCFG.EXE from Lord/32 with a DOS LORD game, it gives
you error messages and unhandled exception errors in particular.  And it
says stuff like this when you try to use Node Configuration:  "The
node config is only used by LORD for DOS.".  When I saw that, I
finally figured out that my LORDCFG.EXE from my Lord/32 game had replaced
the one needed by DOS LORD.  So I unzipped lordcfg.exe from the lord.zip in
l408b-d1.zip beta archive for DOS Lord 4.08 beta, and things started
working right again.

So make sure that your lordcfg.exe is the RIGHT one, for the version of
Lord you are using.  Oh and you can't edit a player.dat file used by DOS
LORD using the LORDCFG Player Editor if that is the one for LORD/32 I found
out.  That resulted in another of those aggravating "unhandled
exception error" messages.  

I also came across a LORD data file today that I had never noticed before,
or seen before, named netlord.dat.  Its a binary file, and I don't know
what its purpose is.

Hope this info on what happened to me if of use to you and others.
Incidentally, I don't think Preslar is paying attention to Fidonet's Lord
echo any more, since he has not been around here in several months. Donald

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