This manual page documents briefly the
lgc-pg
command. It was written for the Debian distribution and is based on
an original documentation written by Michael Speck. The original
program does not have a manual page.
lgc-pg is a program that converts data files from DOS-based game,
Panzer General, to the LGeneral format.
OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
options starting with two dashes (`-').
A summary of options is included below.
-s <SOURCE PATH>
You always need to specify the source directory (which contains the
original data or a custom scenario).
-d <LGENERAL DIR>
Also the destination path that contains the LGeneral data struct
is required. This will usually be /usr/share/games/lgeneral.
--defpal
This one is optional and forces all PG graphics to use the default
palette. Usually you won't need this but if a custom scenario you
converted offers some strange graphics it might be due to a corrupted
palette and the default one may provide better results.
--custom
Add this option if you want to convert a custom scenario. If you do so
you must also provide the next option:
-n <NAME>
This is the scenario's file name and default title.
-i <ID>
This is the XXX in the source gameXXX.scn. If you do not specify
this option it defaults to 0.
-t <TACICONS>
If custom tactical icons are involved (scenario offers a TACICONS.SHP)
this is the name of the graphical file. If this option is not provided
it defaults to <NAME>.bmp.
Note that the conversion of a single scenario might be incomplete.
You'll have to modify the title, description, authors, victory
conditions (default: attacker must capture all victory hexes) and
reinforcements (default: none).
This single scenario file does also include the map and modified units.
EXAMPLES
1) Converts all data from CD-ROM
> lgc-pg -s /mnt/windows/DAT -d /usr/share/games/lgeneral
Lars Ekman discovered that you'll have to mount the cdrom with
option 'check=r' so if you're distro uses another option as default
and 'lgc-pg' doesn't work just try:
> mount -o check=r /mnt/cdrom
NOTE: I read various notes in the iNet that this format
explicitly requires Panzer General _DOS_ version so
I guess the Win32 version won't work.
If anything works fine the converted data is immediately
available on start of LGeneral. If not, one of us has made
a mistake. Please blame the right person ;)
This manual page was written by Lukasz Jachowicz <honey@debian.org>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others). It is based on
the README file available with the LGC-PG.