Hello Donald.

27 Dec 04 22:43, you wrote to me:

 >> Okay, played 6x gem trader, enter igm, get givern a hitpoint potion,
 >> hitpoints raised by 2, get shown stats, hitpoints raised by 2,
 >> suddenly I am married to java another male player, exit igm, all lord
 >> values zeroed, only 2 hit points gotten in igm and married to java -
 >> same sex marrige??? Weird ...    > Russell

 DT> Right out of Twilight Zone almost.  Gem Trader igm has nothing in it
 DT> to marry you to anyone, or to divorce you either.  I have not got a
 DT> clue as to why you have this problem unless it is caused by Linux.

Yep! .... something, somewhere is insane, and for my peace of mind, I am 
getting familiar with LORD and the IGM's much to slowly. :-)

Would really like to know what is effing up what, and where, what bugs me is 
there is no "consistent" behaviour, that I can so far determine.

 DT> http://www.fidotel.com/public/camelot/igm-code/gemtcode.zip - If you
 DT> want to try checking out pascal code, you can read the igm code files
 DT> that the Gem Trader uses, after downloading the gemtcode.zip archive
 DT> from my site. All of my personal igms are freely available to everyone
 DT> as to source code if they want to see how they work internally.

I can compile that - probably, as a mate gave me a copy of Borland Pascal 7 
with OWL (?) ... but have no programming knowledge - yet ....

 DT> Gem Trader only gives away hitpoint potions when you enter the igm
 DT> without enough gems to do business.  But it beats me how you could use
 DT> the igm and end up married to some other player.  Much less what might
 DT> be causing your Lord values to zero out.  However, as long as you are
 DT> using Lord 4.06, and not 4.07 beta, it is possible that Lord 4.06 is
 DT> just not very compatible with the Linux operating system.

I hear you, but the Linux OS has very little to do with it, as it runs in/on 
dosemu which in turn runs MS-DOS 6.22 ...

 DT> Perhaps someone else in this Lord echo, such as Bryan Turner, can
 DT> give
 DT> you some ideas on how to determine if the igms are causing the problem
 DT> of lord stats getting zeroed out, or if it is Lord doing that. Donald

I sure hope someone can help me out of my misery ... 

Russell

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