[DGD] Dump File Management

[Neil McBride]

Hi,

I've been thinking about dump files and the management of them for 
things like backups of the game state, and being able to have more than 
two.  Currently, if I dump one file, it uses the name in my DGD config 
file.  If I dump again and the dumpfile already exists, it's renamed 
with a .old extension and a new one created.  I was wondering if there 
was an option to have the dumpfile option in the config file configured 
something like: -

dump_file 
= "../dump.&T";		/* dump file */

Where '&T' is converted to the current time, either unix format or 
otherwise - it doesn't really matter.  It's easy enough to modify the 
swap.c file to put the output of P_time() into the file name, but I was 
wondering if there was a more elegant solution in place already?

I had a look at the config.c file to see if I could add it in there, but 
I'm rusty and couldn't remember how to replace the string with what I 
wanted ;)

Has anyone else wanted to do anything like this?  How did you go about 
doing it?  I want to be able to eventually have a collection of game 
states I can go back to for when I do something I shouldn't and don't 
notice for days ;)

Thanks,

Neil.

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