Forwarded message: > On Sat, 4 Mar 1995, Ricky David Gibson wrote: > > i've only been coding in C for about 2 years so i'm not even close to > > knowning all the tricks of the trait yet...but to my point.... > > i've noticed on a few other DIKU based muds that you can type parts of > > words instead of the intire word and the mud still understands what > > the user is typing. ie. ki ci for kill cityguard. even > > telling to other characters online you could use the first few letters of > > there character's name. I think you probably have an idea of the point > > i'm getting to. > > > > my problem is I don't even know where to begin, to impliment this idea. > > anyone out there have any ideas on how to go about coding this? > > Start by looking at interpreter.c :) hmmm. our abbrev code had nothing to do with interp. i suggest you trace functions to their origin while looking for code that resembles the code u want to change.
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