Re: hello (also, where are player files written)

From: Frank Fleschner (b1871@truman.edu)
Date: 05/30/03


All those fun functions are in db.c (char_to_store store_to_char),  You
can trace
the login process in interpreter.c (for the most part).  Concentrate in
the nanny()
function.

On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 12:04  PM, christopher j bottaro wrote:

> hey.  i don't know, i haven't touched any of the playerfile code and i
> kinda
> don't want to.  i kinda want to use my own files for a lot of
> things...and
> yes they will be binary.  i forget to say before i'm using circle-3.1.
>  i
> just want a deeper understand of how/when/where playerfiles are
> read/written.
> where should i be looking?  i tried to trace what happens when a
> player logs
> in...can anyone kinda loosely describe the steps?
>
> thanks,
> -- christopher
>
> On Thursday 29 May 2003 08:33 pm, Mark Garringer wrote:
>>> anyways, where are player's read/written to the playerfile?  i've
>>
>> implemented
>>
>>> custom (user defined) colors, and now i need find where to write the
>>
>> player's
>>
>>> color prefs.  i'm trying not to corrupt the playerfile, so my
>>> approach is
>>
>> to
>>
>>> see when/where the playerfile is read/written to, and just open up
>>> the
>>> player's color pref file and read/write to it.
>>
>> Q: Are you using ASCII Player Files or Binary?
>>
>> Sounds sort of like you might not be using ASCII, and that is a good
>> first
>> step :)
>>
>> --Ziz
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