Hello Donald.

27 Dec 04 22:23, you wrote to me:

 >> So if you can mention somethings that I can look out for or report,
 >> other
 than >> the config files, I'd appreciate it ...

 DT> For starters, if you are using a BBS door game and you get an RTE
 DT> message it will help the author when you report a problem if you are
 DT> able to do a screen capture.  Don't know about how things work in
 DT> Linux, but I imagine you know how to use the Print Screen key on the
 DT> keyboard, and how to copy the saved screen into a program such as
 DT> Paint, which comes with all of the Microsoft Windows programs.

Will see if I get some of those, will save them ....

 DT> Basically, you can send an author the config files and other data
 DT> files that the IGM you have a problem with has generated.  But
 DT> probably they won't show what happened.  The angel toolkit-based igms
 DT> don't create error log files, so there is not one to send in.  But I'm
 DT> going to see if I can add something like that to my igms eventually.
 DT> ========================

Appreciated ...

 >> Lost one level 11 and 2x level 10 players after taking ownership of
 >> the pawnshop, what happens if you take ownership and don't deposit
 >> anything
 DT> in the > vault?

 DT> Nothing bad should be happening, that I can think of off-hand.  You
 DT> can lose shop ownership if you are dead and someone claims the igm
 DT> before you log in to Lord and are revived.  You only lose the shop in
 DT> bankruptcy when you let the Config.Gold setting reach zero.  But that
 DT> should not happen that often.  The new owner is granted some funds to
 DT> start out with, and is expected to add money (think of it as
 DT> investment capital) to the vault when they can do so.

About what I expected to be the case ...

 DT> If you would send me an email at ktidmore{at}usa.net, I can discuss this
 DT> a lot easier with you in the future.  I noticed your message(s) don't
 DT> list an email address, so do you have one?

"rtiedt{at}telkomsa.net"

 DT> It will be another week before I reopen Pawn Shop for new
 DT> development.
 DT> Are you using version 3.40 at this time or an older version?
 DT> ------------------------------------------

Version 3.40 of the pawnshop, been using it alone for a couple of days now 
without incident, then tried the gemtrader and got hit again ...:-(((

 >> Thanks for your infomation, I do appreciate it, as stated earlier, I
 >> have only started playing with doors recently, long after I moved
 >> from DOS/OS/2, and have no experience whatso ever with them. So
 >> currently I have no idea what is causing the problem. Dosemu, LORD,
 >> the IGM's, a corrupt config file, or possibly something that I have
 >> not considered.

 DT> There may be others in this Lord echo who can help you with figuring
 DT> out if you have a messed up configuration file, or are using Dosemu
 DT> wrong. Personally, I have no experience with Dosemu.  Not really even
 DT> sure what that is for either, at the moment.

DOSEMU is a emulator that one can run MS-DOS, DR-DOS or FreeDOS on/in, in my 
case I am running MS-DOS 6.22

 DT> There are a few things in Pawn Shop that don't work if you try to use
 DT> the IGM at Level 1, but that is indicated on-screen as you play the
 DT> igm. For the most part, if you have questions about Pawn Shop, a lot
 DT> of them may be already answered in the IGM documentation files.  Which
 DT> are inside the IGM archive file, available from this URL:

 DT> http://www.fidotel.com/public/camelot/lordapps/pawn340.zip

Will give these another read when time permits ...

 DT> Read the ps-whats.txt and Pawnshop.txt files and they'll tell you a
 DT> lot about how the igm works, in case you have not done so already.

Many thanks,

Russell

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