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') -- George Greer greerga@circlemud.org http://www.van.m-l.org/CircleMUD/OasisOLC/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | +------------------------------------------------------------+
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