Systems

In the process of porting Anomaly Jobs to work on PennMUSH, I've found myself with a PennMUSH 1.8.3 database that is:

* A minimal db, plus
* A wizard added names Tools, who owns
* Myrddin's bboard 4.06, Myrddin's cron 1.00, and Anomaly Jobs (pre 5.2), installed in the master room

I'd be happy to provide this on a web site to folks starting out new MUSHes who want a set of standard tools in their database from the outset.

1. Does that seem useful?

2. Are there any other widely used systems that ought to be considered for preinstallation like this?

A long time ago, I did all my mushing on Elendor, which has lots of nifty code. One of many ways to show various stats about players was +countries; it shows a list of countries people are connecting from (Based on the country suffix in domain names) and how many from each.

I eventually wrote my own version for a game I was code wiz for, and that version eventually found its way to M*U*S*H.

What is it?

The best answer is to look at this discussion to see what it was intended to be, then read the commentary below the tf script (link below) to see what it actually became and why.

In short, it's a separate 'window' (or, in the case of tf, 'window section') which supports streaming data from the MUSH for a 'realtime' display of basically whatever you want.

There is one significant restriction, based on tf limitations: it can only be up to 6 lines high.

Below is a list of 'to do' items.

1. Get and maintain plain vanilla default master list (i.e., set up a new PennMUSH "out of the box" and separate the code for setting up defaults in &DATA`<category>`<item>`DEFAULT attributes).

KNOWN BUG: the do-options code, as written, generates a category called 'parameters'.
Mike pages: If you just stick setdiff(<foo>,@config parameters,|) in (where <foo> is the textentries(help,@config %0*,|) I believe) that should fix that bit.

KNOWN BUG: the 'tiny' category doesn't get a description set.

KNOWN ISSUE: Haven't yet finished the /diff switch for two reasons:
1. time
2. have only tested this on M*U*S*H (haven't ever done a plain vanilla, per the 'to do' above).

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I wasn't sure which topic to apply to this story (I think of it as an "Administration" "Tool" in the form of a "Softcode - System"), so I chose to use the same category as the collaborative book to which it refers.

I'm pleased to announce that the WARPEDcore Project is now officially online. (If the previous link url becomes inaccurate, click the "Collaborative books" link in the upper right corner of this page, and you'll find it listed there.)

The book is composed of two main sections:


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