Re: Helpfile loading & spiffy hack ,-)

From: j f chaos (jfchaos@JUNO.COM)
Date: 11/03/97


On Sat, 1 Nov 1997 Daniel Koepke <dkoepke@CALIFORNIA.COM> writes:

>How about seperating the help-file from the keyword list.  That way,
>you create a keyword list that is alphabetized and provides an index
>to the help-file array.  In other words, there will only be one
>entry in the help-file array for all the keywords; and the keyword
>array can be used to look-up things in.
>
>Something like:
>
>  struct help_keyword_array {
>    char *keyword;
>    int index;
>  };
>
>with 'index' being the index to the help table.
>
  Sounds like a pretty good idea, it would finally organize the help
file, in which the commands are strewn all over the place, and you can
have the mud take up less memory by just having the array go to the topic
instead.

>Advantages/disadvantages?  Thoughts?
>
                             ^
I think that there are too many people who like Magic:TG


Lord Chaos

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