I've updated Jason Brown's Lordstat utility so that it generates simple
HTML bulletins of
its LORD bulletins, along with the original ASCII and ANSI bulletin
formats.  I could use
some assistance with pause codes used by various BBS programs with Lordstat.

The program currently supports use of pause codes for Ezycom (thanks to
Stephen Gibbs),
Renegade, Wildcat, RemoteAccess bbs software.  I don't have knowledge of pause codes
for any other bbs software such as Pcboard for example.

If any of you know how to write Pause code that works with other BBS software, please
send me that information for use in pascal code.  Thanks.
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LordMenu notes.  The utility which was taken over from Robert Fogt years
ago by Lloyd Hannesson is no longer usable, regarding the 3rdalt.txt, with
current compilations
of LORD 4.07 beta.  I've written to Lloyd about problem but he's not responding.  He
washed his hands of Lord programming this summer.

I'm trying to do a newer version for personal usage of Lordmenu using the
original code
given to me by Robert Fogt, but so far can not get it to make a 3rdalt.txt
that conforms
to the requirements of Lord 4.07 beta and Lord/32 beta.  According to
Michael Preslar,
who told me what went wrong with 3rdalt.txt, the file can not contain any lines that
are longer than 255 characters.  LORD now shows the Lordmenu-generated 3rdalt.txt
files all scrunched up into four or so lines on-screen, rendering the
utility worthless
for users of Lord 4.07 beta.  Stephen Gibbs has tried fixing the program I am working
on, but has had no luck with it either.

Off-hand I would say that if anyone wants an alternative Lord utility that is fully
supported for making 3rdalt.txt files, you will have to create one.  Perhaps one of
you will be interested in doing that.  Or perhaps you can all convince
Michael Preslar
to give REGISTERED users of LORD the ability for LORD itself to generate
the 3rdalt.txt
file (and/or the RIP version files) from the 3rdparty.dat file.  That would
benefit all of
us long-term I think.  
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If you use the old DOS LORD igm Free World, consider it abandoned and dead.  I found
its author during the summer but he did not have its source code available.  And he's
not gotten any response from the guy who was storing his old bbs computers since
that time.  So it looks like for the time being, Free World, has no DOS Lord future.
I am slowly developing a Lord/32 version of Free World that Chris Martino had made.
Eventually it will be released for others to use, once Lord/32 itself has
been released
officially.  Right now, the beta is available if anyone wants to use it.  I
was authorized
by George Batalias to recreate his igm, so that's what i am doing.  Donald.

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