You wrote: > > I just stumbled onto the dbm thingy which comes with > > all UNIXes: > > > Wouldn't using those save us from many problems with playerfile, > > alias, objfile & saved_struct modification ? > > > > The public domain gdbm package can be downloaded from > > aeneas.mit.edu. Just in case its not installed ... > > > > Cat. > > thats fine but what about all the people on wintel machines, on os2 > on anything else they are trying to run it on. Doing something like > that would really tie us to a platform. Naah, writing for Windows will tie you to a platform, namely Windows. I think it should be very easy to port gdbm to DOS. It just uses fread,fwrite,fsync and a few other fxxx's. libgdbm.a is barely 28 KB big on my system and compiles in about 30 seconds ... Adopting the 81 line autoconf.h file for a win system should be pretty easy. Anyone want to try ? Cat. --- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ Thomas Katzlberger _/_/ _/_/ katzlbt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu _/_/ _/_/ @aWhiteNeXT.called.garfield _/_/ _/_/ http://www.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~katzlbt/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ "You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish." _/_/ _/_/ UNIX man page for tunefs. _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/+-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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