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- LORD2 Compile.exe V1.00 by Seth.
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- Have you written an IGM or World and you don't want others to be able
- to look inside it?
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- Use COMPILE.EXE on your ref and people CAN'T do the following:
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- * Look at the .ref to find hidden tricks
- * Change the .ref to make it easier/customized
- * Steal your work and copy it
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- Sounds great! Is it hard to do?
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- Nope, just type "COMPILER.EXE refname.ref" and it will create a file
- called "refname.rec" without touching your original.
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- Now, take your source (the .ref file) out of the dir and run LORD2, it will
- automatically load the .REC after it cannot find the .REF file! If a .ref
- exists, it will always run that instead of the .REC. (.ref is the source
- file, .rec is the compiled version. Get it? LORD2 can read both)
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- ** Info and quirks **
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- * SHOW SCROLL will not work inside of a compiled .ref. The good news
- is nobody I've ever seen has used this feature, and if you need it just
- stick it into a different .ref file - you can mix and match uncompiled
- and compiled together. As for as original LORD2 .refs, HELP.REF is the
- only one that uses it.
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- * Compiled .refs aren't really compiled.. they are encrypted. This means
- they are not smaller or faster, just the opposite actually.
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- * Declare command will not work with compiled .refs. I may add this
- later, it would really speed up .refs as they would not need to be
- 'scanned' before running each time. (although no one has built a util
- to add DECLARE statements to uncompiled .refs either, so no great loss)
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- * I did a compile *.ref in the LORD2 dir, then deleted *.ref and manually
- copied help.ref into the dir (the one with the scroll scroll), and everything
- worked great but be warned that this is basically untested.
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