I'm pleased to announce after much hard work that Circle 3.0 is now available for general release. The code has been fully debugged!! Thanks to a brilliant utility called BugFind (similar to lint) written by Jeff Fink, author of previously successful MUD software such as Cartograph, in conjunction with Chris Herringshaw's remarkable "SourcePatch" automatic source code creation utility, all remaining bugs in Circle 3.0 have been automatically tracked down and eliminated. EXTRA SPECIAL THANKS to Jeff and Chris for writing these ground-breaking software packages which finally put an end to the slow and tedious process of *manually* debugging! The BugFind/SourcePatch combo can automatically fix the bugs in *any* MUD code without any operator intervention, as long as there are comments in the code describing what the code is supposed to do. The production version of 3.0, as well as binaries for the BugFind and SourcePatch utilities, have been put on a special FTP site linked with a T3 to the 'net to handle the high load. They can both be found at: ftp.bugfind.org:/pub/CircleMUD ftp.bugfind.org:/pub/bugfind Good luck, and have fun!! Jeremy Elson 4/1/95
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