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<HR><H2>driver database dumping</H2>
<H3>daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mon Oct 31 18:42:53 1994
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From: brandon@petersboro.declab.usu.edu
To: coldstuff@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 94 16:36:05 -0700


The more I think about it, the more I believe that the driver should
dump object's with their dbref rather than objnum, _if one is assigned_.

This would do a few things:

    a: would make going back to a base level 'core' much easier.
    b: would give an easy means to reset object number counters in an
       existing db (TCD's is up to ~8000, nothing high, but still high
       nonetheless, considering there are ~200 actual objects).

I could think up more reasons, but my head hurts.  What is the general
consensus upon this?

-Brandon

(you would still be able to get the objnum from the 'name dbref objnum'
line, so if you wanted to reset you would go and renumber those lines only).
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