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- From: isae@iastate.edu (Gadjah Mada)
- Subject: Re: Bronco dB
- Message-ID: <isae.725792226@pv6642.vincent.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <1992Dec30.224156.11488@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 08:57:06 GMT
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- In <1992Dec30.224156.11488@doug.cae.wisc.edu> chris@inconel.uucp (Christian) writes:
- >Ok, call me shmoo, but now that I have the wonderfully plump and robust
- >bronco dB, how the heck do I get it to work with my server?
-
- Use the newscores program in the tools directory.
- % newscores -u
- Usage: newscores < scoredb
- This program takes input of the form generated by the 'scores A'
- command. This allows you to create an ascii form of the database
- with 'scores A > scoredb', then you can edit it as needed, then you
- can issue a 'newscores < scoredb' command to restore the database.
- Note: The form of the output from the 'scores A' command is very
- specific. Be sure that the input stream matches it very accurately
-
- And also, just to be safe, make sure the daemon is NOT up when using
- newscores.
-
- >There seems to be a conflict twixt mt .global file and the .players
- >file... atany rate, runinf scores on .players results in a core dump,
- >and pledit upchucks just as happily.
-
- Before Terence officially 'closed' bronco, he found out something
- about the database being corrupted by some weird control chars in players'
- keymaps. Those players were assumed to be users of the latest Pigborg.
- You need to find a good editor to get rid of those control chars, I guess.
- (that is, before you run newscores to generate .players and .global)
- I had to do that once but since then I never touched the database at all.
- Maybe someone else could give more info about this.
-
- >Anyone wanna clue me in? Or am I asking for can in the candy store?
-
-
- >-Chris
-
- -Rony
- isae@IASTATE.EDU
-