On Mon, 24 Apr 1995, Jeremy Elson wrote: > > I cannot in good conscience make such a dramatic increase in the complexity > of the CircleMUD system when a much better solution is staring me in the > face: switch over to a paradigm of ASCII playerfiles, and consolidate > all data there. On a similar, related note, the Mail and Board systems > will probably also switch over to being ASCII-based -- simple text files > always win over unreadable binary files. > > Comments are welcome. I haven't come to a firm decision on this yet, and > although I'm heavily inclined to make the switch, I'd be willing to stay > with binary if there's serious opposition. > > Serious comments only please. All flames will be happily ignored. > > --Jeremy Elson > This is definatly a better solution. As a few ppl responded with before, most ppl have the space and cpu (not that I think it will be any noticable change to switch to ASCii based files) to handle this. Gets two thumbs up from me. (whatever that means....) B) =KTP=
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