On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, C^2 wrote: >Actually, the solution would depend on your skills. An alternative to >coding db.c would be to write a sed or awk script. Both of these are >actually quite easy to use and extremely powerful. I would suggest the >book unix in a nutshell for anyone who does any work in the unix >environment. I was forced to do shell scripting in my c++ class and found >that extremely powerful scripts can be writen in less than 15 minutes. >Hope this helps give you some alternatives. The db.c change will be < 10 lines (typically) and you don't need to debug a separate script or keep it around to convert zones later. (I've done the changes many times, it's simple.) -- 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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