Woh, I never really got it down specificly to save_other_helps, I just
asumed it was hedit entirly. I just simply re-write it so that all the helps
are saved in one linked list, and saves to help.dat. It removes all needs
for save other helps. And its not that hard to do.
To cycle through the helps it'd be something like
for(pHelp = help_first ; pHelp ; pHelp = pHelp->next )
And thats how its saved. If you have thousands of helpfiles you could always
impliment them into a hash to shorten the searching time.
Davion
From: "Jeremy Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Hedit and save_other_helps; a workaround
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 06:59:07 -0600
Hello,
If you happen to have a version of hedit that has a function named
save_other_helps in it, take a
close look at the function, and you'll notice that it will destroy area
files. Example on how to
cause problems:
- First, back up your areas!
- Stand in Mud School, or any other area with no helps in it at the moment.
- Create a new help without specifying an area name to create it in the
area you are standing in:
'new blahblah', fill out the fields, etc.
- asave changed, or asave the area.
- Shell in to your server and tail <area>.are, or 'ls -l school.are' to
note its size. It has saved
correctly.
- Now edit the help file once again; modify the text, for example.
- Once more, asave changed.
- Shell in to your server and tail <area>.are, or notice its size. Oops.
- Congratulations, you now have an 80-byte (or so) area file!
One workaround (this is not particularly the best workaround, if you have
discovered this problem
yourself and have found a more elegant solution, your post would be
appreciated):
Comment out all calls to save_other_helps and instead add this line to
function hedit_level,
hedit_keyword, hedit_text, right before the final return:
SET_BIT(ch->in_room->area->area_flags, AREA_CHANGED);
Note that you may have a different version of hedit or a fixed version of
hedit, and this may not
apply to you.
Thanks for your time,
Jeremy Hill
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