RE: [Circle] Proposed idea for Buring items

From: Nick (hash@brionne.cyberverse.com)
Date: 07/27/96


On Sat, 27 Jul 1996, Christopher M. Ryan wrote:

<with regards to putting delays on the 'dig' command>
> That sounds like a very good idea. I just have one question. How would i do
> something like that without causing lagg for the entire system?
<only quoted the IMPORTANT stuff, unlike some people>

Use an event handler.  (You can see one at the snippets page, I 
believe.)  Put the dig command into the handler with a delay of 
X ticks/seconds...

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