On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Christopher Avans wrote: >On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, George wrote: > >> On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Patrick J. Dughi wrote: >> >> > Hey George - there gonna be an "auto-save" config option in the >> >near future? You'd be 'tha man' on this one :) >> >> I made it beep if people tried to log off when they had unsaved zones on my >> MUD. I could make it configurable so that it always does a save to disk >> whenever you edit a room although it makes much more disk access that way. >> It's better to queue up a few rooms. I will most likely take one of the >> spare integers and make it a 'save after this many rooms' variable. > > I subsribed to this maillist for help with a port but have ended up >reading alot posts and not working to much on my port >:( hehe Port to what? >bout the olc/obuild auto-save I did this exact thing with olc had it save >after 5 rooms had been edited or made. It turned out bad. A couple times >I had a guy link a room to a room in another zone and it autosaved before >he could fix it and some other stuff. All in all I returned to the 2 step >manual confirm I'd make it a configurable option like 'wimpy' and still allow manual saves. That should take care of any problems people have. If they mess up, they can fix it and do a manual save also. -- George Greer - Me@Null.net | Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity http://www.van.ml.org/~greerga | is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://democracy.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list-faq.html | +------------------------------------------------------------+
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