The following was posted to the list awhile ago--last summer, I believe.
It allows incomplete object names, and you can copy the technique it uses
to get incomplete player names, although that is a potential annoyance
and might not be wise.
>From suisol@grfn.ORG Sun Sep 18 15:01:26 1994
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 1994 16:59:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jonathan Wood <suisol@grfn.ORG>
To: circle@marble.bu.edu
Subject: name completion code hack
As promised in an ealier message here is a simple hack to allow
the use of incomplete names for objects, players, mobs, etc. The inspir-
ation for this came from The Realms of Dark Shadows (jericho.connected.com)
which also happens to be where I code (shameless plug, please ignore).
The hack is quite simple to install and involves only less than
a line of code added to the handler.c file.
IN HANDLER.C IN THE FUNCTION ISNAME() CHANGE THE FOLLOWING CODE:
for (; ; ) {
for (curstr = str; ; curstr++, curname++) {
if (!*curstr && !isalpha(*curname))
return(1);
TO:
for (; ; ) {
for (curstr = str; ; curstr++, curname++) {
if (!*curstr && !isalpha(*curname) || is_abbrev(curstr, curname))
return(1);
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