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First entry of Paradise Server 2.9 patch 10 Beta
| author | darius |
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| date | Sat, 06 Dec 1997 04:37:01 +0000 |
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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 | |
| 4 have given it a reasonable amount of testing, there probably still are | |
| 5 bugs. So, please always keep backups of your .players file. | |
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| 7 Usage: pped [file] | |
| 8 Where [file] is the pathname of the player database file to be edited. | |
| 9 If no file is specified, then it looks for a file called .players in | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 19 "Edit: Command (? for help) -->", you need to specify Save to record | |
| 20 whatever changes you've made. This only changes the database in | |
| 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 | |
| 24 for a filename, and then the entire database is written into that file. | |
| 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, | |
| 28 nothing will actually be changed in the .players file until you save | |
| 29 the whole thing out. The main disadvantage to this is that if your | |
| 30 .players file is very large, this becomes inefficient. I will probably | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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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