[338] in Coldmud discussion meeting

Re: run_script() (odd random thoughts after lots of hour of sleep loss)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sun May 29 16:26:46 1994 )

From: BRANDON@cc.usu.edu
Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 14:13:17 -0600 (MDT)
To: coldstuff@MIT.EDU
X-Vms-To: COLDSTUFF

> Can you write a script from cold? or does it (as i hope) need to be
> written outside and then installed in the scripts directory (which
> should be the only directory you can run a script from)
>
> Is your series of scripts what allows writing to the file system, or
> is it the server? (I could probably write a script that when invoked,
> connected to the mud as a player, listened to everything said, and
> wrote it to a file, or whatever you want, so I dont see why your
> limited to one line, bit I dont fully understand how scripts work with
> Cold.)

All run script does is run execv() with whatever you feed it, and it checks to
make sure you are running it from the scripts directory.