On Mon, 24 Apr 1995, Sean P. Mountcastle wrote: > Most (I'm not saying all) of us, who run Circle based MUDs are > either paying for a site, where we are charged for usage of system > resources (which includes diskspace), or we are running on public (i.e. If you are on a commercial site, you usually can buy extra discspace for a little fee. Generally it's not too expensive, and a lot of them take only a one time fee for extra space. > University owned computers) and have to maintain the good graces of our > sysadmins, thus a 4 meg pfile (with about 200+ players) would be better > than 10's of megs of ASCII playerfiles, which can be even more easily > edited by those who should not be able to touch them (i.e. there is an > area builder who has access to the accounts, he sees that they are ASCII > playerfiles, and makes himself an IMPL.....). This would be a bad idea nomatter what. Usually you want to have more then one account, and people that has nothing to do with coding or pfiles. should not have access to it. A better way would be to set up an extra account for builders. Then make a group called: mud (or whatever), then set read and write access to the group. This way builders will only have access to the zone/mob/obj file.. > But, as far as boards go (but don't do it for player mail) I > think they should be in ASCII text. I think the best way to solve this, is to make the ascii-format optional, so that if you have limited discspace you should at least have to option to use binary.. *************************************************************************** * Ole Gjerde | Computer Science major * * aka Kilkenny | at North Dakota * * | State University * * Email: Gjerde@plains.NoDak.Edu |-------------------------* * Gjerde@badlands.NoDak.Edu | Proud user of Linux * ***************************************************************************
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