Patch for TinTin++ port

Dylan McCall dylanmccall at gmail.com
Fri Sep 28 00:58:20 CEST 2007


Sorry, triple-posting here. Bad form, indeed.
It helps to compress these things :)

Still larger than the attachment limit, but it's a much easier download:
http://dylanmccall.googlepages.com/tintin.diff.tar.gz

Bye (again),
-Dylan McCall

On 9/27/07, Dylan McCall <dylanmccall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I forgot to attach the patch, as usual...
> The appallingly ugly (and large) diff may be downloaded from here:
> http://dylanmccall.googlepages.com/tintin.diff
>
> Bye,
> -Dylan McCall
>
>
> On 9/27/07, Dylan McCall < dylanmccall at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Forgot to attach the file, as usual...
> > :p
> >
> > On 9/27/07, Dylan McCall < dylanmccall at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > It took me long enough, but here it is!
> > > This is a port of TinTin++ to DSLinux. Tintin is a MUD client,
> > > designed for playing text-based online RPGs. It works better than Telnet
> > > does on its own; it has command history, tab completion, scripts, macros,
> > > and a really cool map feature.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, the diff command hates me, so the file (attached) is a
> > > bit of a mess. (And 1.5 MB!). Should do the trick, though, I hope...
> > >
> > > The original source is TinTin++ version 1.96.8, available from
> > > Sourceforge:
> > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=137339&package_id=150930&release_id=495749
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Notable changes for DSLinux port, using TinTin++ version 1.96.8:
> > >
> > > -Resized output of "help credits" to fit screen size
> > > -Added note at bottom of credits confirming this is the DSLinux
> > > version and not some freaky mutant binary gone sentient, capable of running
> > > on any and every computer platform.
> > > -Added automatic saving and loading of data at boot and exit, using
> > > file /var/tt++. This way, extra scripts only have to be loaded once!
> > > (Unfortunately, you are then stuck with them). Could be much more flexible,
> > > for example loading multiple files (each script gets placed somewhere and
> > > loaded automatically) and saving tabs from sessions, but, alas, it is not.
> > > -Using custom chat.c which does not require pThreads. Thanks to
> > > Scandum (at tintin.sourceforge.net) for this!
> > >
> > > The reason for that auto saving and loading is not just that it's a
> > > great feature to have, sadly.  A weird bug that I haven't given much (or
> > > any) attention to causes the program to behave painfully when it tries to
> > > read values of its command line arguments.
> > >
> > > All the rest works, though, and quite well :)
> > >
> > > Bye,
> > > -Dylan McCall (AKA: Picklesworth)
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
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