On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Tony Robbins wrote: >I applied this patch which I thought was bpl19 to my CircleMUD (I replaced >the main() function), and now all my MUD does is display the 12 days of >Christmas! Can you please help! I tried restoring from backup but my tape >drive ate the tape. Any ideas? BTW, there's a misspelling: > > On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me > a partridge in a per tree. You think I was going to try to fix it?! :) There's probably a version somewhere with that fixed but I had mine from comp.lang.c.moderated years ago. >ObCircle: >I played with the parser.c file that was contributed way back when, a couple >days ago. For those of you unfamiliar, it works as follows: > >"I am [a fish.\a goat.\Great Teacher Largo!]" Mixing documents with executable code is a bad idea. JavaScript, Visual Basic Macros, etc. On their own they're not bad but thrown them right into a document and the fun ensues. >After being parsed, will return one of: "I am a fish.", "I am a goat.", >or "I am Great Teacher Largo!" Or Pirogoeth (both versions), which proves why I'm a programmer, not an artist. ><q> > <o source="character.intelligence <= 5"> > <p indent="false">I are liking big dumb rocks, they are nice.</p> > <p indent="true">Ooh, but this is shiny rock. Me likey rock much.</p> > </o> > <o source="character.intelligence <= 10"> > <p>You notice some black rocks here, with one particularly shiny one >present.</p> > </o> > <o> Might as well write a special procedure triggered on "look". Or make some scripting language (e.g., DG Scripts) do that. -- George Greer greerga@circlemud.org -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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