<snip> Again, perhaps, I understood the point wrong, but as I said in my first mail, merging ALL of the helpfiles into help.are IS a good idea, it's quite that. Merging all of the helpfiles into ONE helpfile is a bad thing, because there's no distinguishing between the two. <snip>
Perhaps you need to learn to "read" and "understand" what one is asking before replying. He didn't ask about one "entry", he asked about one "file". Keyword = FILE, Keyword != ENTRY Get it? Got it? GOOD!! <snip> And yeah, something could easily spike memory for a mud. For example, if, taken for instance, I was right, and the idea was to just throw everything into one entry. That single entry would have to be searched through whenever a user typed help "the" for instance. Every occurrence of the word "the" would have to be reported to the user, which, again, could seriously spike server resources, or cause the mud to dump a core and run like mad, depending on how good your programming skills are. <snip> And why on earth would ANYONE do this? It would be absolutetly crazy to dump "all" entries into one entry and the search for keywords. What kind of idiot would do that? I know I wouldn't, and I know many others wouldn't. And, even if someone "did" do that, the memory spike would be so minimal, it wouldn't be much noticing. Ever do a find in a word document and ask for it to return a count of a word. Don't take very long on a 50page document, even in windows. Find and Replace is another story, however. Again, "understand" what ppl are asking about before replying. You make yourself sound stupid and ignorant, and you give bad advice or misinterpretted information to those who are asking about it. Rheede, has joined to be a member on the flaming list.
