                        GlobalWide LordNet

              National Hub, Epic Gravity BBS, Tampa, Fl.
                             1:377/8

Thanks for requesting this file....the first section will tell you
how to set up LordNet on your system.  Even if you already have it
set up, we suggest you read it, just to be certain you have it
configured correctly for our net.  The one thing unique about our
net is that we allow ANY IGM's that you may want to run!  This makes
for a VERY interesting game, and we are proud to be one of the most
active nets around.  Give us a try, and I'm sure that you will agree!

This file will help you in setting up the Lordnet Program. As
soon as you get the program set up, just drop us netmail and tell us
that you are ready, give us your board name, FidoNet number, and City/State,
wait 24 hours, then FREQ magic name LORDSITE and we will send you your
site.dat. If you have ANY questions on the setup, please feel free to ask us
for help. This process is VERY easy...we can get it all set up and running in
about 5 minutes.  We will be glad to help you.

First, make a SUB-directory called LNET off your LORD directory. Change to
LNET and pkunzip Lnet101C(or whatever version you have). (If you can't find
this file, we have it available for FREQ using the magic name LNETFULL.  This
is version will be up to date. You may also grab the newest beta release by
FREQing the magic name LNETBETA. Overwrite the exectuables of your current
LordNet version with these. LNETBETA is only the exe's so you must have the
full version running before you use this. You may grab both at the same time
by FREQing the magic name LORDNET!) Type LORDNET CONFIG. Go in Config Local
Setup, and fill out all the file directory paths, be SURE to put the \ after
all the directory names!  Where it asks for the "main node number" that is
YOUR fido address. Exit this part of the program, and bring up the Alternate
Address section, and enter your FIDO address in position one. Now go to the
main menu of LORDNET CONFIG. Type I for install. Exit this and go into your
LORD directory and edit 3RDPARTY.DAT. In there you should find the following
lines:

    C:\DOORS\LORD\LNET\LORDNET.EXE DOOR C:\DOORS\LORD\LNET *
    `0LordNet `!- `0INTER-BBS LORD!  Fight enemy bbs's!!

        Make sure the directories are correct! If not, go back into
LORDNET CONFIG and go back into Config Local Setup. Check all of your dir
paths. If it is not there already, you might want to move the two lines above
that call your lordnet to the first two lines to the top of the file(above
all of your other igms) so that your users see it! It's a lot easier to spot
a new addition to the igms section if it's at the top rather at the bottom
or in the middle. You might want to even play around with the colors and text
to help your users find it. Something like brown, blue and throw up color or
something to make it look REAL nasty so it spots the eye of the user. :). 
Now go in your LORD directory, and find START.BAT.  Find the line that says
CALL LSS%1... go ONE line down from there and put CD LNET (or whatever
directory you have LordNet in) and then on the next line put OUTBOUND and
then on the next line put CD.. to change back to the LORD directory.
              Like this:    CALL LSS%1.BAT
                            CD LNET
                            OUTBOUND
                            CD..

If you are running LORD350 or newer, go in the Start.Bat file and find the
line Lord.Exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5, and on the next line, put

                           CD LNET
                           OUTBOUND
                           CD..

That will run outbound everytime someone plays the game.

If you have an extremely active lord game, you may want to leave out
the above step, and run outbound from a maintence file once or twice
a day. This way, outbound runs every time someone plays lord and it will
create a lot of packets to be sent to me, increasing your phone bill. All
that is needed is to have it run once every day or other day to keep it
going smoothly. If you run it every time someone plays lord, you can end up
with 100000 packets to send! We have in our midnight maint. event:
                           CD \LORD\LNET
                           OUTBOUND
(This will create outbound files only once a day.  You may set it up
either way, but if you see that too many files are being created,
then we would advise going to the once a day routine. If you are local, then
you might want to have it run every time someone plays and set the packets to
crash so it keeps the game running fast.)

Then go in whatever you have that runs your mailer, and put in the line:
            IF EXIST C:\WC\MESSAGES\LN*.Z* LNET.BAT.

Then create a LNET.BAT thusly:
            CD \WC\LORD\LNET
            INBOUND

This will run inbound from the LordNet directory only when your system gets
any Lordnet files.  You HAVE to be in the LordNet directory to run either
INBOUND OR OUTBOUND.  Before you run this for the first time, you may want to
copy the LN mail file you get to some other directory just in case something
messes up, as the inbound will ERASE the file when it runs.  Also, change the
batch file above to whatever YOUR directories are really called.  This should
get you going!

Very Important:

1. You MUST run LNET101C (or later) version of LordNet for the game to work.
   You can FREQ it from us as LNETFULL.
2. When you get Lordnet correctly installed, send netmail to 1:377/8
   and tell us that you are ready.  Then in 24 hours FREW the magic name
   LORDSITE. We will then send your SITE.DAT file to you. In your netmail
   message, tell us:   Your Board Name, Your City and State, Your FIDO node
   number. When we send you your SITE.DAT file, take that file and drop it
   into your LNET directory.  That will activate your game. As soon as you
   send us this info, you will be included in our game, and your files will
   be ready for you to pick up, just as soon as we send you your site.dat
   file.  We will not turn down any node that applies. We welcome ANYONE
   from the USA, Canada, Europe, and any other place in the world! All
   systems are invited to join!
3. After you have LNET setup, and have your site.dat file, go in LNET
   dir and type LORDNET CONFIG. Type I for install. Exit this and go into
   your LORD directory and edit 3RDPARTY.DAT. In there you should find the
   following lines:

    C:\DOORS\LORD\LNET\LORDNET.EXE DOOR C:\DOORS\LORD\LNET *
    `0LordNet `!- `0INTER-BBS LORD!  Fight enemy bbs's!!

        Make sure the directories are correct! If not, go back into
   LORDNET CONFIG and go back into Config Local Setup. Check all of your dir
   paths. If it is not there already, you might want to move the two lines
   above that call your lordnet to the first two lines to the top of the
   file(above all of your other igms) so that your users see it! It's a lot
   easier to spot a new addition to the igms section if it's at the top rather
   at the bottom or in the middle. You might want to even play around with
   the colors and text to help your users find it. Something like brown, blue
   and throw up or something to make it look REAL nasty so it spots the eye
   of the user. :). 
4. Then, from the LNET directory, type INBOUND and then OUTBOUND.
   If you have everything correct, both these will run without errors.
5. In your ROUTE.CFG file you should have these two lines:
              HOLD * 1
              UP *
   This will put everything on hold for us. You can then go into your
mailer as often as you want and change our packet to NORMAL or CRASH to
send out the game files.  You could also mark the above to NORMAL * 1
if you want to send outbound files every day. We do request that you
poll us for your files at as often as possible, at least ONCE a week
to keep the game current.

Note:  Some mailers will work better if you put NORMAL * 1 in your route.cfg,
and then tell the mailer software to put everything for 1:377/8 on HOLD.
Check your mailer directions if you have any problems.  If you care to
call us everyday, just put everything on NORMAL.

Then you can go in CHECK ROUTING in Lordnet Config and make sure that it works
if you can go in there and call up a node, and exit without a runtime error,
you will know you have it set up correctly!

6. Once you are satisified you have it set up correctly, and have run
   OUTBOUND, your mailer should have a file-pack addressed to our
   system.  Go into your mailer, and mark that pack as CRASH, and send
   the pack to our system at 1:377/8. This will send your files to us,
   AND then pick up your files at the same time.  If you have everything
   set up correctly on your end, the files you receive with this call
   will be processed by your system, and you should be able to go
   into your LORD game, and call up all the remote systems in the
   LordNet area.

We have had questions concerning which IGM's are allowed...if you
can install them, you are allowed to run them.  No limits. If you
don't agree with this, please don't join this league.  This league
was founded because there are a lot of people who are tired of the
limits in some of the other leagues.

Your costs of calling for your game files should be about 20-30 cents
per call at 14400 and around 15-25 cents on a 28800 call, and about 15-20
on a 33600 baud call, depending where you are calling from, and the time
of day that you are calling and your long distance privder.  Figure if you
call twice per week, you are giving your users a great game with very active
nodes for around 60 cents per week.  Our LORD useage here has gone up over
400% since we started the net, and it is making the board much more active.

8. We run 33600 baud modems for fastest transfers to save you on phone bills.

9. Thanks for joining, and we hope you and your users will have fun!

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