0.5  VIO2EDIT.EXE Information  {10/12/05}
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IGM Utility: Violet's Cottage II Player Editor

VIO2EDIT v1.00 -- Officially released on Oct. 12, 2005.

    -- Development started on Aug. 04, 2005.
    -- Development ended on Oct. 12, 2005.
    -- For usage only with the DOS LORD IGM.

    -- Requires you to have a current VIO2PLAY.DAT file.
    -- You also need to be using v1.08+ of the IGM,
       or Violet's Cottage II v1.20.

  Violet's Cottage II v1.20 was also released on Oct. 12th, 2005.
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Dedication Info:
    This IGM is dedicated to Violet's Cottage's author Trevor
    Herndon, and to an old BBS friend, Lloyd Hannesson.

    The VIO2EDIT player database editor is dedicated to the
    memory of Roy Rogers, as of 09-28-2005.
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  VIO2EDIT Usage Notes:
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  VC II is abbreviation for Violet's Cottage II.

  Player Database Editor utility is being released at same
  time as the IGM.  Use either VCEDIT10.ZIP or VIOCOT12.ZIP
  to obtain the player database editor files.

  1) Obtain VCEDIT10.ZIP by email request, or by downloading
     it from various Fidonet and Internet locations.  The
     primary distribution source URLs are listed here:

     http://www.fidotel.com/public/camelot/LordApps/vcedit10.zip
     http://www.fidotel.com/public/camelot/LordApps/viocot12.zip
     - Castle Camelot Lordapps sub-directory.

     http://www.filegate.net/camelot/lordfile/vcedit10.zip
     http://www.filegate.net/camelot/lordfile/viocot12.zip
     - Camelot LordNews FDN's LordFile sub-directory.

     http://www.nightfallgames.com/files/Utils/vcedit10.zip
     -- Nightfall Games server's Utilities sub-directory.

     http://www.nightfallgames.com/files/Igms/viocot12.zip
     -- Nightfall Games server's IGMs sub-directory.

  2) Unzip all files from VCEDIT10.ZIP into your VC II IGM
     directory, using overwrite mode so you get the newest files.

  3) Change into the VC II IGM directory.  Verify that you have
     a current VIO2PLAY.DAT file.  If you don't, then you can't
     use VIO2EDIT.EXE.  The player database file has to be one
     that was created on or after August 04th, 2005.

  4) The first time you run the utility, it will ask you for
     the path to the VC II IGM directory.  Type it in, and
     press ENTER to exit the dialog box prompt.  VIO2EDIT.CFG
     file will be created in that directory.

  5) Run VIO2EDIT.EXE.  If a config file is not in the directory
     you run it from, it will ask you to create on - as noted
     above.  If config file is found, it then checks for existence
     of VIO2PLAY.DAT file.  If one is not found, program will
     give error message and quit working.

     VIO2EDIT has only one screen of data.  It shows database
     fields in the order they are listed in the player database
     record structure (usually).  Each value, with one exception,
     may be set to any value that is valid for it.

     The Lord Player Number field is display-only.  That is because
     I don't see any valid reason to allow users to fiddle around
     the LORD Player Number field.

  6) When you exit VIO2EDIT, it will resave the VIO2PLAY.DAT
     file so that any changes you made will be accessible to
     the IGM.         End of Notes for VIO2EDIT usage.
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Copyright 2005 by Donald Tidmore.

VIO2EDIT.txt file was created on August 04th, 2005.

Revised on:   October 12, 2005 at 03:01 pm.

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