Ok, I've had a working glowmuck running with @path before and along the way moving from Linux to FreeBSD I find myself rebuilding a muck from scratch. No ...
I thought cmd-path wasn't even needed anymore? You need to have lib-userprop installed to use cmd-path. Then after its installed properly, you should have an...
Syvel
syvel@...
Nov 3, 2001 4:21 am
542
Well, I've been wondering. I haven't heard ANY news about upgrades for glow, and with proto and fuzzball doing so well under sourceforge.. Has anyone ever...
... In-Muck email could be implemented with MUF communicating with a robot on the email server. If that is how it was done, should be able to port it over. I...
Ron Wilson
rlw@...
Nov 16, 2001 8:02 pm
545
I believe that you can't use color codes in leave_mesg because it can occur even if you aren't logged in. Ie. it's not associated with your player object,...
Artiste Extrordinaire!
artie@...
Nov 17, 2001 4:18 am
546
For some reason, I'm just not recieving emails from this mailing list. I have to go on the web to get them, and I'm pretty sure I'm set to recieve mails....
I have a very old multi-player game coded in C, which was intended to be played on a BBS. I would like to make it playable on my MUCK, but am undecided what's...
Tony Belding
tlbelding@...
Nov 19, 2001 4:02 am
548
... You might also consider middleware that logs on with a Player object, as a conduit between the muck and the external program, like NeoNet and (iirc) the...
I've only had trouble sending mail, not getting it. You might want to make sure you are set up to receive mail from the list correctly. The only other...
Glow really isn't designed for a 'door' type program because it's a single-threaded loop. You're probably best off coming up with a muf version depending on...
Okay, thanks, I got it figured out. :) Some bulk mail was slipping past that Yahoo! filter thing, so I had made an extra one to nuke all incoming email that...
I recently had the opportunity to recompile Glow.... and change a few compile-time options while I was at it. We finally got rid of paths (thank gawd!), so...
Tony Belding
tlbelding@...
Nov 21, 2001 10:47 pm
553
As far as building commands goes, I *always* replace the inserver building commands with muf versions. Primarily because the muf program I use, called ...
Syvel
syvel@...
Nov 22, 2001 10:33 am
554
Program Error. Your program just got the following error. Shutterbug.muf(#19483), line 132; RECYCLE: Cannot recycle active program My problem with this is.......
Tony Belding
tlbelding@...
Nov 24, 2001 10:57 pm
555
... Every MUCK I have had a character one, has used the ABODE flag (instead of the LINK_OK) flag for determining the default for the parent room of the room...
Ron Wilson
rlw@...
Nov 26, 2001 6:38 pm
556
This sounds like a very, very good idea to me. The trick is getting it
coded in, or in some cases, finding the TIME to code it in.. I'm sure
PakRat has...
Is the Q flag used for anything other than QUELL on a player? In other words, does putting a Q flag on a thing-object have any meaning to Glow? The reason I...
Tony Belding
tlbelding@...
Dec 6, 2001 9:10 pm
558
If you set Q on a W-bitted player, they temporarily "loose" their
wiz-powers.
If you set Q on a room, it looses the "contents" listing (so I recall).
I'm not...
A friend of mine, who was dabbling with ansi on a MUCK, began having
trouble. I offered him help, being that I'm decent when it comes to
descriptions and ansi...
... Because (in the desc example) one copy is immediately notified to the viewer when the MPI is evaluated, and one is returned as the value of the desc....
I followed the tell/otell model because I saw a distinct reason for wanting to have the result pushed back on the stack. The result does not have color...
NarniaMUCK has gone through this extensive little soap opera for the past few days. As I understand it, on December 6th it attempted to do a full save, and...
... That sounds unfortunately similar to what happened with Furscape several months ago. We were having repeated crashes during the saves, and everything our...
Tony Belding
tlbelding@...
Dec 11, 2001 10:13 pm
566
I can offer some tips of things that do cause crashes: 1. Running out of diskspace / quotas. (obvious) 2. Having the muck killed badly when a system is...
... OK, this could be a problem. I assumed the script that starts Glow would recognize if there was already a glow process running and would abort. If that's...
Tony Belding
tlbelding@...
Dec 12, 2001 3:09 am
568
It's actually not a dumb question, it's quite valid with the various unix flavors. If you're on Linux, you want to do: ps ux If you're on a SYSV style Unix or...