On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Gary Barnett wrote:
>Here's a little snippet to mitigate some of the data loss from an olc crash.
>
>Just put this, or a varient of it, in the xxxxx_save_to_disk for each olc
>save routine. Then, when you get a crash just copy xx.wld.bak to xx.wld to
>restore it as of the last successful save.
>
[code snip]
Already planned for OasisOLC 1.5 (my mud has done it for over a year, after
it started eating world files).
Except I'm doing it a slightly different way. I'm going to write the new
world to a temporary file. That way if the MUD crashes in the meantime,
the old one is still there. Then when the write is complete it'll rename
it.
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