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# Re: New LambdaCore database released (fwd)

- Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 20:08:59 PST
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    ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 21:56:29 -0500 (GMT-0500)
    From: G. Ellenburg <gme@nebula.ispace.com>
    To: Judy Anderson <yduj@cs.stanford.edu>
    Subject: Re: New LambdaCore database released

    Judy,
    	Is it just me but there appears to be no more "@dig" or "help
    building" anymore in the new database!
    	How does one create new rooms with the new core?  HELP! <g>

     ______________________________________________________________________
    | George M. Ellenburg | "Build a Bridge and get over It cuz Life's too |
    | ------------------- |  short to Worry." -ME                          |
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    On Fri, 29 Dec 1995, Judy Anderson wrote:

    > There's a new version of LambdaCore for the new year.
    >   ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/pub/MOO/LambdaCore-25Dec95.{db,db.Z}
    >
    > The new core contains the addition of Frand's Player Class---everyone
    > copies this anyway so I figured we could go ahead and corify it.
    > Frand is given credit by virtue of the class name; not having logged
    > in in the recent past and being unavailable to ask, I hope I haven't
    > stepped on alien toes too hard.  You get @refuse, @join, @find, and a
    > variety of other useful tools.  There are undoubtedly some bogons as a
    > result of this---extra verbs included that really belong to the
    > LambdaMOO Political System, missing verbs that break functionality.
    >
    > The mail system has been hacked on a small amount to make it easier to
    > remove.  That is, there is now a Mail Recipient Player Class in the
    > default hierarchy.  However, there is still huge quantities of code
    > which expects that players can receive mail, so simply recyclnig this
    > will undoubtedly give you a raft of problems.  Concrete suggestions on
    > what else needs to be done to further encapsulate the mail system are
    > welcome.
    >
    > Byte Quota Utils uses the new value_bytes builtin.  This core will
    > not run under 1.7.8.
    >
    > There are a lot of things which are by default $server_options.protected,
    > and corresponding #0:verbs, which all of the core calls.  We recommend
    > keeping these protections for various security reasons.  We also left
    > you with $server_options.queued_task_limit = 100.
    >
    > And of course the usual raft of totally random changes that have been
    > made by the LambdaMOO wizards.  We *think* we have insulated you from
    > the LambdaMOO politically motivated changes, but of course we may have
    > screwed up.  Bug reports welcome...
    >
    > One known bug: #0:rmatch should be changed to just return
    > rmatch(@args).  There was a short time during which I was attempting
    > to reduce the triggering of the match memory leak by installing
    > this---lots of the core calls it, and I forgot to undo it for rmatch
    > when I undid it for match after the server patch was announced.
    > Unfortunately I forgot about this until I was writing this letter
    > rather than during the last minute core patchups this afternoon.
    > Oops.
    >
    > Sorry, Brack, I think @verbs didn't actually make it into the core,
    > and Blackbriar hates it anyway.
    >
    >       Judy Anderson yclept yduJ          'yduJ' rhymes with 'fudge'
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