In a message dated 2/13/00 9:53:44 PM Central Standard Time,
jessh@white-wolf.com writes:
<< At risk for getting flamed with a newbie question:
I've noted that the Circle stock code has very strong warnings to not
modify
the existing variables in the character files. Why is this? I'd like to
totally
throw out the D&D based system in favor of a different customized one, but I
don't want to inadvertently totally break something. >>
pfiles in stock CircleMUD are binary[1]. So you can't simply open them up in
pico/edit/whatever to fix them up. So jacking around with them generally
incur's a pwipe. There are various snippets out there to move from binary
files to ascii ones... Not too hard to install.
[1] atleast in the copy i used last.. havent used circle in a while.. :)
JD
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