Re: Changing VNum's to long

From: The Realms of Tremaria (tremaria@CYBER-SAFARI.COM)
Date: 03/12/98


>         I am considering 'converting' all vnums over to longs so that
> the problem of running out of zones won't hit until my grandson is running
> the MUD and I'm a gray old man with cybernetic hands to replace these
> aching CTS'ed out wrists.
>
>         Has anyone done this (looks simple, no?) and if you ran into any
> problems with it, what were they?

This isn't hard to do, just takes a while.  You have to take every
reference of %d that refered to a vnum to %ld.

I did it several months ago, and haven't had any problems yet.

Tremaria

-- He who laughs last, is slow to understand.


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