On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Shane P. Lee wrote: >Most newbie Implementors choose to use OasisOLC because they either >don't know how or are unwilling to modify the world files. Adding new >sectors to Zones would require manually editing each zone file. >Every since OLC+ was released, I have been adding a new zone flag >(builders) to each MUD I have coded for. I really like the whole >idea of the zones holding the permissions rather than the pfiles. >However, each time someone tries to transfer my modified zones over >to a new game, I get all kinds of hate mail in my inbox overnight. I believe OBuild or some OasisOLC permissions patch just made them a comment '*' line. It's not that hard to make a line optional in the zone parser. It'd be even easier if we were using the lex/yacc parser. >Sure, George has the option of adding to or removing from saved world >data, but in truth that option should be left up to him, the CircleMUD >maintainer. You can do it too, as long as you modify db.c to handle both cases. -- George Greer greerga@circlemud.org -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | | Newbie List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/circle-newbies/ | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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