try the get_char_vis and other get_char** funcs in handler.c.
damn that was a long time ago.
George wrote:
>
> On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Nephanor of the Fraal wrote:
>
> >I am looking for the old patch that allows you to just type in part of
> >the name of a player or mob for a friend who is still running an old
> >bpl10 version. For him, time is limited, so updating, or even starting
> >from scratch, is out of the question. I couldn't find it on the Ceramic
> >Mouse site, which is where I seem to remember finding it in the first
> >place. What I remember is that it was a simple replacement of the isname
> >function.
>
> Had to do with replacing isname() with isabbrev() somewhere. Don't
> remember where though. May be in the list archives.
>
> >And remember that old CircleMUD Resources page? Well, when my site went
> >bye-bye, it did too. Well, it's back (it's actually been back for a
> >while, but it seems that some people, like the Ceramic Mouse site admin,
> >didn't get it) Point your browser to http://cmrsrc.8m.com/ to get there.
> > Yeah, I know, my links on it need to be updated (in regards to the
> >Ceramic mouse site itself) but at least it's back up, including the DG
> >Script and DG Event pages.
>
> Fixed.
>
> --
> George Greer
> greerga@circlemud.org
> http://www.van.m-l.org/CircleMUD/
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