NAME
lgc-pg - LGeneral Converter for Panzer General
SYNOPSIS
lgc-pg -s <PG DATA DIR> -d <LGENERAL DIR> [--defpal] [--custom -n
<NAME> [-i <ID>] [-t <TACICONS>]]"
DESCRIPTION
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
2) Converts a custom scenario
> lgc-pg -s /home/michael/newstuff/dunk -d /usr/share/games/lgeneral
--custom -n Dunkirk -i 44
TROUBLESHOOTING
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 ;)
SEE ALSO
lgeneral(6)
AUTHOR
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.
April 8, 2003