Re: [CODE] Restring

From: George (greerga@circlemud.org)
Date: 02/03/99


On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Jeremy Music wrote:

>On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Cj Stremick wrote:
>
>> Nah.  Look at "obj_file_elem" in structs.h and you'll see that not all
>> object information is saved.  You, of course can change this structure to
>> include the strings but you would need to either convert or wipe your rent
>> files and the new "flavor" of rent files would become *very* fat.
>
>Not terribly bigger, but a good argument in favor of ascii format because
>then you can do something like:
>
>sprintf( buf, "gzip -9fq %s", strsave );
>system( buf );

zlib would be much easier.

('man zlib')

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George Greer
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