Short notes on usage of CONVBANK.EXE.  Edited 10-29-2005.

Program was created for me by Stephen Gibbs in early October 2005.

Renamed from CVTKBANK.EXE to CONVBANK.EXE 10/29/05.
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Compiled CONVBANK.EXE, v1.05 Beta, on December 13, 2005.

Usage:  It converts a bankplay.dat, which has to be named
"KB13PLAY.DAT", from KLBank version 1.30 into a new bankplay.dat
file that is fully usable with KLBank version 1.38 Beta.

If you are already using KLBank's October 2005 betas, then you
do NOT need to use CONVBANK.EXE, unless you just want to see
how it works.

Instructions.  This assumes you are using KLBank v1.30.

1) Copy the CONVBANK.EXE and CONVBANK.TXT files into your
Kiteria's Lord Bank game directory.

2) Run Kiteria's Lord Bank v1.30.  Do anything you wish to
do inside, and then exit the program.  Then exit LORD as well.

3) Change to KLBank directory.  Print copy of bank-use.txt file
just to be sure you don't lose track of igm users' bank Gold
and Gems balances.  Copy your bankplay.dat to KB13PLAY.DAT.

4) Using Bankwork.zip obtained from me via email, unzip its
files using overwrite mode on top of your existing KLBank v1.30
program files.

5) Run this command from the DOS prompt:  CONVBANK

It will read the KB13PLAY.DAT binary database file.  It reports
the number of database records it converts, along with showing
the LORD Names of each igm user.  Then it terminates.  Entire
process takes a couple of minutes or less.

6) Run KLBEDIT.exe player database editor, version 1.04 Beta,
which is inside BANKWORK.ZIP archive.  Verify that all of your
igm database records are valid amounts, using the printout
of bank-use.txt as reference (from step #3).  Once you know
all of the records contain valid data, exit KLBEDIT.

7) Conversion process is completed.  When you run KITBANK.EXE
from LORD the next time, you will be fully updated to the
current beta - with one exception.  There are two additional
variables added to the igm's configuration file, covering
Gold Transfers/Day limit and Gems Transfers/Day Limit.  So
run this command now:  KITBANK CONFIG

Follow the instructions and indicate Sysop Handle, Max Visits
per Day, Gold Transfers/Day and Gems Transfers/Day.  When
finished, exit from KITBANK CONFIG process automatically occurs.

You may now resume normal usage of my Kiteria's Lord Bank igm.

Donald Tidmore.  Created file CONVBANK.txt on Oct. 21, 2005.

Copyright 2005-2006 by Donald Tidmore.

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Dec. 31: * Edited DIZ and documentation files for new year (2006)
           and for new development month (January).

Revised docs file CONVBANK.TXT on December 31, 2005.

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