Re: More uh. yep. Dynamic Board stuff.

From: George (greerga@CIRCLEMUD.ORG)
Date: 03/04/98


On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Patrick J. Dughi wrote:

>        Two.  The boards don't like tildes.  Not even a little.  So, you
>might want to do the following:

A slated-for-bpl13 item is this in modify.c:

  /*
   * Erase any ~'s inserted by people in the editor.  This prevents anyone
   * using online creation from causing parse errors in the world files.
   * Suggested by Sammy <samedi@dhc.net>, -gg 2/20/98
   */
  while ((tilde = strchr(str, '~')))
    *tilde = ' ';

If anyone thinks that's too drastic, gripe now. :)

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