On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Abraham Dizon wrote: > I did a search for 1 hour but didn't find them: You wasted an hour. Those lines do not appear in db.c in recent patchlevels. You could have discovered this in far less than an hour using your text editor's search function or UNIX/Linux grep as follows: % grep -n 'GET_CLASS(ch) = st->class;' db.c % grep -n 'st->class = GET_CLASS(ch);' db.c Since neither of these produce any output, you know there are no matching lines. Of course, the smart thing to do after that is to try various substrings of the line you're looking for, to find near matches: % grep -n ' = st->class;' db.c % grep -n 'st->class = ' db.c % grep -n ' = GET_CLASS(ch);' db.c 2334: st->chclass = GET_CLASS(ch); % grep -n 'GET_CLASS(ch) = ' db.c 2216: GET_CLASS(ch) = st->chclass; Note how the last two returned matches on lines 2334 and 2216? Note also how these matches look an awful lot like the lines you were searching for. The lesson in this is that a little bit of strategy goes a very long way. > *Coding on a MUD as a newbie coder is a learning project for me* > *Though most people think not knowing how to code a MUD isn't a > learning project* It's not a learning project, even if you're trying to use it as one. It's not a learning project, even if you're successfully using it as one. It's not a learning project, period. That you can learn from it is irrelevant. You can also use a pair of scissors for home surgery and, yet, it's still not a scalpel. The answers to "can you...?" and "has someone...?" do not confer identity. In fact, they're mostly useless questions. Lots of things are possible (on some strictly metaphysical level, everything is possible), but much fewer are likely. Lots of people have done things, but much fewer should have done them. You should not use a MUD for a learning project. It is a convuluted, horrible beast of several thousand lines. It is modular, but in a twisted fashion. It is bound together by years of designed, redesigned, evolved, and hacked together code. A MUD is a chair held together by everything from Elmer's glue to duct tape to nails -- you shouldn't use such a thing to learn how to make furniture; you shouldn't be surprised if such a thing collapses under your weight. Most importantly, you shouldn't expect people to jump to your aid every time it collapses beneath you. You've been warned, now, so good luck in your endeavor... -dak -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | | Newbie List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/circle-newbies/ | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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