All this time, and I never noticed that note in the man page. I will make the change.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris "Winston" Litchfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael Barton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "ROM" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 9:38 AM Subject: Re: track [snippet] > bzero is a deprecated function. In other words, it is no longer updated and > recommended you do not use it. > > please use memset instead. > > Just a slight update to your tracking snippet. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Barton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "ROM" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 2:49 AM > Subject: track [snippet] > > > > I know I said I'd do this like 2 weeks ago.. but I did all the work to > write > > it then got lazy about posting. > > http://www.bluecadaver.com/mud/track.c > > > > The important part of this snippet is the find_path function. > > The do_track included is just an example and pretty weak. If you already > > have the track snippet, you might be better off using your do_track and > just > > change the find_path to mine, which is obviously superior ;) > > > > Jason got good returns (faster than the usual track snippet) tracking > across > > one of his uber giant wilderness areas. > > I've seen a much larger (80-90%) improvement using it to track through > stock > > ROM style areas. > > > > It also should give better paths, since it's not an in-order traversal of > > the map like the other snippet, instead it looks at every room at each > depth > > until it finds the right one, assuring the shortest path. > > > > Hopefully someone likes this and uses it :) > > > > --Palrich. > > > > > > -- > > ROM mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom > > > >
