Re: Yet another problem

From: George (greerga@CIRCLEMUD.ORG)
Date: 03/14/98


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


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