WARNING!!  I did not write this source code.  I don't even have any idea
who did!  If it ruins your machine, don't blame me.  USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!
Before you even attempt to use this, you should really have a good 
understanding of bitfields (which is tough, since good sources on the 
topic are hard to come by).  Be warned that this code was based on patch 
level 8 (version 3), so if you are used to patch level 11, there are some 
important changes you need to be aware of (I haven't looked too hard yet, 
but the spello function leaps out at me...).  

Because this is based on patch level 8, I make no guarentees about 
portability.  Please do not come to me with portability problems - I don't
know anything about your system, I don't know anything about porting.
Read the documentation included with this distribution about porting.
Go to the bookstore and buy some books on the topic.  You can try the 
patch.pl08-pl11, but I have no idea if it will work.  If it doesn't, 
don't complain to me, I will ignore you.  You can try downloading a 
clean copy of patch level 11 and compare it manually with whatever 
section is giving you problems.  I won't help you there, you will just 
have to know what you are doing (or else make some educated guesses ;-)
You can try some programming newsgroups (comp.lang.*) or some mud
newsgroups (rec.games.mud.*) or, as a last restort, try the mailing
list (see http://www.circlemud.org/ for details).  DO NOT CONTACT ME
WITH PORTABILITY PROBLEMS!!!  Thank you.

The basic idea behind bitfields is good, hence my efforts at fixing this up.
The basic idea is this: since you are limited to 32 bits in a bitvectors
(64 with some compilers), bit-fields are a way to get around this without
having to resort to some messy system of using 2 bitvectors for one set of
things (e.g. AFF_ flags).  This is accomplished by setting individuals bits
instead of pre-declared bitvectors.  But the real kicker:  you can use as
many bits as you want :-D

I've got it to compile and run (there are a variety of warnings, but some 
I know are because my compiler sucks (using cygwin under Win95, but it 
should still work on most UNIX systems), and others don't seem worth 
bothering about ;-)  but there may easily be bugs herein that I have not 
found yet (i.e. I have not thoroughly tested it...).  If you find any bugs
or other problems, let me know and I will do my best to fix 'em up.  I made
no effort to verify the integrity of the world database - if you find any 
problems with it, let me know immediately!

One thing to be weary of:  I had to explicitly include telnet.h in utils.c,
even though I had HAVE_ARPA_TELNET_H defined.  I assume this is a consequence
of using patch level 8 code, since this is not a problem for patch level 11.
I left it in, but you may have to remove it.

  -the count
   eglamkowski@mathematica-mpr.com