# Inputting a text file for use as a program in a MOO

Alex Stewart (riche@crl.com)
Mon, 23 Oct 1995 23:43:56 PDT

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    > > 	Thank you very much, every one who replied to my post yesterday
    > > (re: byte quota as opposed to object quota).  Now, the thing I need to
    > > know is:  Is there any way to input a text file (containing MOO code)
    > > into the MOO, without having to connect from a different site?

    I'm not sure quite what form of this question you're asking, but if you just
    want to do somehting by hand, the easiest way is just to get a copy of
    TinyFugue, set it up on your local system, and use its /quote command (gives a
    much nicer interface to the MOO also).  TF can be obtained from
    ftp.ccs.neu.edu in the pub/mud/clients directory..

    > I believe that FUP has just what you want... just toss the file into your
    > files/ directory, and fileread() it into memory.  Then eval it or
    > use it in set_verb_code or something along those lines.  (Sorry, I forget
    > the address from where to get FUP.. check the MOO-cows archives for that,
    > it's mentioned all over the place)

    FUP takes a significant bit more hackery to set up, but of course is much more
    flexible if you're doing a lot of file IO or want to have the MOO able to do
    everything itself (FUP is a patch to the MOO server which adds builtins for
    reading/writing to the filesystem). You can obtain FUP from
    bioinfo.weizmann.ac.il in the /pub/software/MOOsupport/FUP directory, if I
    remember correctly.

    -R
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         Alex Stewart - riche@crl.com - Richelieu @ Diversity University MOO
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