On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Patrick Dughi wrote: [snip] > Hope this helps. If not, I recommend Ditel/Ditel's "C: How to > Program" as a very indepth, yet learning & course oriented > textbook for the c language. I still use it myself from time to > time - though mostly for terminology ;) [clip] I would also suggest the classic, "The C Programming Language", by Kernigan and Ritchie. It was my first reference and the textbook for my first high school programming seminar back in '91 (taught by the infamous Matt D. Welsh). There is, I believe, at least a second edition out now (Pretence-Hall). As a companion for the beginner, try also "The C Answer Book", by Clovis L. Tondo and Scott E. Gimpel (also Pretence-Hall). It was published after my C skills were honed so I can't say first-hand, but I've heard many say it makes the K&R more intelligeable for newbies. OB Circle: "Introduction" code has been mentioned on this list repeatedly in the past. I know of at least one project under development to bring a patch or snippet for this addition to an up-to-date revision of Circle. The down-side, as I see it, is that it's being written to require ASCII player files. This was to get around the restriction of fixed-length records in binary player files if I remember correctly. Would it not make more sense to use a separate file, similar to the player alias files? Most of the storage and retrieval code is already written that way and can be copied with minor modifications. Some has even been modularized or objectified to an extent. I'm planning on incorporating something similar into my MUD in the near future, though it will take fame and racial differences into account, incorporate memory limitations based on intelligence and a few other perks... -- ShadowRealm Management - http://mud.yuggoth.org -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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