USING PRAYBUILDER.EXE

Put the following files into one directory.

- PRAYBuilder.exe
- The PRAY Template file
- The .cos file(s) for the agent you want to make
- Any files to be packaged with the agent, such as new images, 
  sounds, or catalogue files.

Go to the START button (on Win98). Go to Programs. Click on 
MS-DOS Prompt. You will see a black window with white text that
most likely reads:

C:\WINDOWS>

This means you are in the \WINDOWS directory. You must now 
navigate to the directory with your agent files in it. 

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NAVIGATING THE DIRECTORY TREE IN MS-DOS
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cd..            Backs up one level.

cd dirname      Takes you to the directory dirname

dir/p/ad        Displays directories available from the current
                directory. If there are too many directories to
                fit on the screen at once, it will show one screen 
                at a time and prompt the user to "Press any key to
                continue..."

MS-DOS does not recognize long filenames. Therefore a folder labeled
"Program Files" in Windows, will be listed as PROGRA~1. To set the
working directory to "Program Files", type in:

cd PROGRA~1

To close the MS-DOS prompt and go back to Windows, type:
exit

ctrl-esc will minimize the MS-DOS prompt window.
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Once you have navigated to the right directory type:

praybuilder <pray_template_filename_with_extension>

and hit enter.

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Example MS-DOS screen output:
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C:\WINDOWS>cd..

C:\>cd mydocu~1

C:\My Documents>cd breadt~1

C:\My Documents\Bread Tutorial>praybuilder bread_vendor.txt
Welcome to the PRAYBuilder 0.100, please wait, processing...
Please wait, processing bread_vendor.txt into bread_vendor.agents
Please wait, compiling...
Please wait, preparing StringIntGroup chunk...
Chunk is of type:AGNT and is called Bread Vendor
Prepared, looking.....
Trying to add a file mapping to bread_tut.cos
Storing chunk...
Done.
Parsing inline chunk...
Chunk is of type: FILE and is called bread_vendor.c16
The data for the inline chunk comes from bread_vendor.c16
Done parsing inline chunk...
Parsing inline chunk...
Chunk is of type: FILE and is called bread_tut.catalogue
The data for the inline chunk comes from bread_tut.catalogue
Done parsing inline chunk...

C:\My Documents\Bread Tutorial>exit

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Your agent will appear in the same directory that contains 
PRAYBuilder. Move it to your My Agents folder to inject it
into Creatures 3 for testing.


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