[DGD]Yet another newbie question o_0

[James Bearden]

Ahh, so how do I install this ansi patch then, in the prompt hit
patch <the zip file> and its done? Or do I untar it and use the patch 
command somewhere?

>From: John "West" McKenna <john at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>
>Reply-To: dgd at list.imaginary.com
>To: dgd at list.imaginary.com
>Subject: Re: [DGD]Yet another newbie question  o_0
>Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:51:45 +0800 (WST)
>
> >I'm taking a stab at it. The kfun 'ansi' which contains the files 
>dgd.ansi,
> >dgd.ansi.host.pat, dgd.ansi.comm.pat get copied into the driver/kfun
> >directory, then I recompile?
>
>No - these are the patch files that tell the "patch" program what changes
>to make to the source. dgd.ansi.host.pat describes the changes to be made
>to the "host.c" file, dgd.ansi.comm.pat for comm.c
>
>If you don't have "patch", do not fear.  These particular changes are
>simple enough to apply by hand.  For example, dgd.ansi.comm.pat says what
>lines 289 to 299 look like in the original, and what they should look like
>in the patched version.  In this case, the only change is to the line that
>starts
>} else if ((*p & 0x7f...
>Edit this by hand, make similar changes in host.c (simply adding a line),
>and you're done.
>
> >While i'm at it, to get the whole thing going I type ./driver somewhere, 
>bin
> >or src?
>
>There will be an executable called "driver" somewhere when you're done (I
>can't remember where it is, but it isn't hard to find, and you can move it
>somewhere else if you like).  You need to tell it where the mud.dgd file 
>is.
>With my little MUD, I have the two files in the same directory, and I just
>say
>./driver mud.dgd
>
> >Oh and something else I thought about, is there somewhere in the config
> >files where I put in the ip address for the machine its hosted on? IE i
> >wanted to run a mud off of plasamic.plasmic.com, would I need to add that
> >line somewhere? The place you change the port is in mud.dgd.. i think.
>
>mud.dgd contains everything that needs to be changed.  There's more than
>just the port - you need to tell it the directory the MUD is in, the
>location of the swap file, and (this is a tricky one!) the name of the
>create() function.  From memory, the default is *not* create().  Go through
>this file line by line.
>
> >By god i think i'm learning.
>
>Good luck with it all.  I hope you weren't wanting to have time to do
>anything else...
>
>John West
>
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