On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Cris Jacobin wrote:
> First question I have, is what resources or options exist for the
>conversion of stock diku tinyworld files to circle 3.0 format? (Other than
>splitting and converting it by hand of course)
Try the 'split' utility in the utils/ directory. Other than that, I ran
the entire SillyMUD world file through CircleMUD. I had to fix a couple
errors in the world file that CircleMUD found though.
> However, the idea of converting hundreds of rooms one at a time
>with pico, isn't an entertaining though. I'm sure someone has written an
>awk or sed appliction to do this. (I myself whipped up a sed script to
>replace all the QQ's with a zone number in the very few areas on the
>circle ftp site)
Just add it to your index and make sure nothing conflicts as in room
numbers.
> Can anyone offer a quick solution to the bug in the stock circle code,
>where the first entry of a name upon the client connecting, invariably fails?
?
> Just to let you all know, I've chosen circle mainly for it's
>'stockness', and the promise of an update, 'comming soon'.
And plenty of unofficial updates floating around to pick from. :)
> If someone could give me an update on the status of the next version
>of Circle I'd appreciate it. The, 'comming soon', was back in 1996 aparantly.
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