On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Admin of The Keep wrote: > On Sat, 5 Oct 1996, Niese-Petersen wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > the space I save.. And extra information like that, will just add up. > > Thats why I take the chance and load/save in the same order :) > > You could save more space if you have fields that are set to the > default and just completely eliminate them from the file. That > way, while you are gaining a bit of space for the "field" being > there, you are also eliminating "0 0 (null) (null) 0 0 0" from > the file. Not many default values.. Besides name, but read below. > I personally don't see why, though, you'd need to do > a save of their name in the pfile considering the name is known > by the time we are reading the pfile (eg., "spawn.plr" obviously > belongs to the person named, "Spawn," no ned to have that in the > actual pfile). Well.. depends how you look at it :) A player could have a name with more than one capital letter. Like: BRiT Then the question is: Do you want filenames like BRiT.pfile or brit.pfile ? :) --- Erik Niese-Petersen Aka Quint The typo God Realms of Darkness IMP +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://cspo.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list_faq.html | +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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