Re: [ALERT!!!] Major back door in AScii PFiles!!!

From: Akuma/Chris Baggett/DOOMer (doomer@BAYOU.COM)
Date: 01/27/98


>The "solution" to this is to parse descriptions to be written to the
>file, replacing "~" with a blank space.
>
>- Chris Jacobson

or just look at how Death's Gate did this with the show/hide_tilde function.
pretty interesting,
just use a Magic_char to replace the tilde in the desc,
save it, and when it's read back in, just show_tilde.

that's it.

Code On
Akuma the Raging Coder

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