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1 pped (version 1.1)
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3 This is a relatively simple Paradise player database editor. Although I
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4 have given it a reasonable amount of testing, there probably still are
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5 bugs. So, please always keep backups of your .players file.
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7 Usage: pped [file]
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8 Where [file] is the pathname of the player database file to be edited.
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9 If no file is specified, then it looks for a file called .players in
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10 the current directory
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13 **** Important notes ****
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15 I don't have any instructions yet, my apologies for this. You can get
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16 a list of available commands by entering '?' at a prompt.
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18 When you are in the edit screen, where the prompt looks like
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19 "Edit: Command (? for help) -->", you need to specify Save to record
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20 whatever changes you've made. This only changes the database in
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21 memory, it won't affect any files.
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23 When you specify Save in the Index screen, however, you will be prompted
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24 for a filename, and then the entire database is written into that file.
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25 This is the only place where a file can be changed by this program.
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27 pped reads the entire db into memory, so when you edit individual entries,
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28 nothing will actually be changed in the .players file until you save
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29 the whole thing out. The main disadvantage to this is that if your
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30 .players file is very large, this becomes inefficient. I will probably
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31 make it disk-based in future versions.
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33 The editor will adjust to different terminal heights (i.e. number of
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34 rows), but it assumes that your terminal is at least 80 columns wide.
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36 pped is written entirely in ANSI C. So, you will need to supply whatever
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37 flags are needed to put your compiler in ANSI mode. Or, you can use gcc.
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39 Do NOT change the .players file that is being used by the server if
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40 there are people logged in to the server.
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43 Please send comments/bug reports/suggestions/etc to hakehoe@icaen.uiowa.edu
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