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This is the changes file for PennMUSH 1.8.2. Please look it over; each
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version contains new things which might significantly affect the
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function of your server. Changes are reported in reverse
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chronological order (most recent first)
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[SW] is Shawn Wagner, a PennMUSH developer (aka Raevnos)
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[EEH] is Ervin Hearn III, a PennMUSH developer (aka Noltar)
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[GM] is Greg Millam, a PennMUSH developer (aka Walker)
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[3] refers to code by (or inspired by) TinyMUSH 3.0
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[MUX] refers to code by (or inspired by) TinyMUX 2.x
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[Rhost] refers to code by (or inspired by) RhostMUSH
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==========================================================================
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Version 1.8.2 patchlevel 8 Jan 01, 2008
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Minor changes:
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* 'make versions' now provides some feedback.
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Fixes:
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* width() and height() do not return 0 when set to invalid input.
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By Talvo.
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* Array underflow bug found by running under Valgrind.
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* Crash bug when too many objects are nested. Reported by Paige, fixed
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by Javelin and Intervis.
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Version 1.8.2 patchlevel 7 October 6, 2007
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Minor changes:
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* nwho() now takes an optional viewer argument like lwho(). By Sketch.
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Fixes:
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* Clarified the behavior of eval() and get_eval() in help. Suggested by
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Talvo and Javelin.
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* A failed db save no longer broadcasts a success message in addition to a
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failure one. Reported by Cooee.
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* The open database file wasn't getting closed on a failed save.
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* Crash bug in sortkey(). Fix by Nathan Baum.
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* Crash bug in pathological container cases reported by Paige@M*U*S*H
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fixed by Javelin.
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* 'help @desc' brings up @describe instead of @descformat.
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Suggested by Nymeria.
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* Removed mention of Win32 requiring a particular attribute
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compression algorithm. Any will work, and always have.
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Reported by Andrew Klein.
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* Crash bug in @purge. Javelin.
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Version 1.8.2 patchlevel 6 July 9, 2007
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Development team changes:
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* After many years of valuable work, Talek has retired from
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development.
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Minor changes:
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* Removed the gmalloc malloc option. [SW]
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* KEEPALIVE flag makes the server send a telnet NOP after
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a short period of inactivity; helps prevent timeouts from
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NAT/router devices with a short timeout. [MUX]
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Fixes:
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* Fixed assorted small memory leaks. [SW]
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* Fix to fraction() when dealing with numbers that can't
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be fractioned. Discovered by Ashen-Shugar. [GM]
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* Fixed handling of telnet NOPs sent by clients. [SW]
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* The OpenSSL random number pool wasn't getting adequately
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initialized on systems without /dev/urandom [SW]
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* Infinite loop in math code. Reported by Ashen-Sugar. [GM]
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* mkvershlp.pl skips over emacs backup files.
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Version 1.8.2 patchlevel 5 June 13, 2007
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Minor changes:
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* Assorted gcc warning fixes. [SW]
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Fixes:
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* Cleaned up some unsafe signal handler functions. [SW]
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Help files:
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* Mention examine lock in help lattr(). Talvo.
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Version 1.8.2 patchlevel 4 May 16, 2007
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Minor changes:
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* speak() uses accented names. Sketch.
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* config() no longer lists options that can't be set
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with @config/set. Suggested by Trispis. [SW]
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* 'page foo\=bar' pages the last person you paged. Fix by Nathan
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Baum.
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* Receipt of a SIGUSR1 (Causing a shutdown/reboot) is explictly
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logged. Suggested by Interloper. [SW]
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* @wipe reports the number of attributes deleted. [183]
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Fixes:
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* You can no longer save objects slated to be destroyed
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by using @set foo=!GOING (The help file for GOING now tells
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the truth) Reported by Cooee. [SW]
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* Useless variable in real_unparse() removed. Reported by
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Taladan. [SW]
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* 'make portmsg' works, and portmsg.c rewritten to current
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Penn standards. [SW]
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* case() would replace #$ in the default argument, contrary
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to the help file. Reported by Talvo. [SW]
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* Memory leak in grep(). [SW]
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* Quotes can be around the player name on the login screen
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always, instead of just when player_name_spaces was
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on. Suggested by Dan Widdis. [SW]
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* '{think foo} bar' exhibited odd behavior. [GM]
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* 'make test' wouldn't work right unless '.' was in you path.
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Fix by Nathan Baum.
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* stdin and stdout weren't getting closed, potentially causing
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problems when trying to log out of a shell after starting
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a mush. Reported by K Moon. [SW]
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* NetBSD compile and general warning fixes. [SW]
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* Favor difftime(3) over subtraction of time_t variables. [SW]
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* Clarification of attribute trees in HELP @WIPE. Suggested by
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Talvo.
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* Loading a db with empty attributes used as the roots of
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attribute trees didn't work if empty_attrs is set to no.
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Reported by Kevin. [SW]
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* Bugs in wiping attribute trees with attributes the wiper
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doesn't have permission to delete fixed. [SW]
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Version 1.8.2 patchlevel 3 March 11, 2007
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Fixes:
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* Unterminated buffer in sortkey() fixed. Reported by Balerion.
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Patch by Javelin.
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* Memory leaks in setunion() and revwords() fixed by Javelin.
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* Crash bug in speak() fixed. Reported by Trinsec. Patch by Javelin.
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* Crash bug in buy fixed. Reported by Amy. Patch by Javelin.
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* If we should fail to clear a semaphore attribute for some
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reason (e.g., it's the branch of an attribute tree), reset
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the semaphore count on the attribute to 0. Patch by Javelin.
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* iter() dealt badly with freeing buffers when CPU_LIMIT or
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function_invocation_limit was hit. Found by Ashen-Shugar. [GM]
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* @ps/all displayed the wrong queue entry count for mortals.
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Reported by Cheetah. [SW]
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* @hook/override of say would get an extra leading " if that was
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used instead of the literal say command. Reported by Tuxedo Ian.
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[SW]
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* Fixed a bug where speech seemed to come from the wrong
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object for nospoof information. Reported by Jules. [SW]
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* The help entry for @poll failed to mention @poll/clear.
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Reported by Cooee. [SW]
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Version 1.8.2 patchlevel 2 January 27, 2007
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Fixes:
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* Vector functions with an empty vector didn't return anything.
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Reported by Talvo. [SW]
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* Several typos in server messages. Fixed by Sketch, Stoko.
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* Help fixes by Malix, [GM], Talvo, Sketch, and others.
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* Crash bug in lmath() fixed. [GM]
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* Crash bug in list functions fixed. [GM]
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* list2arr in C now removes markup. list2arr_ansi() was added. [GM]
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* Compilation problems on IRIX and similar OSes. [SW]
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* Matcher bug with multiple wildcards fixed. Reported by Ian. [SW]
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* Garbled output of locks from examine. Reported by Intrevis. [SW].
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* regraballi() couldn't use its output seperator argument. Reported
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by Jules. [SW]
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* Looking at an object used the looker, not the lookee, as the origin
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of the name for @ahear/@aahear/@amhear. [SW]
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* Fixed the distribution of random numbers with a huge range. Reported
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by Luke.
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Version 1.8.2 patchlevel 1 November 26, 2006
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Fixes:
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* Corrected inadvertent breakage of null comparisons. Patched by
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Javelin.
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* Added overview since 1.8.0 to help 1.8.2p0. [EEH]
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Version 1.8.2 patchlevel 0 November 26, 2006
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Major Changes (since 1.8.0):
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* Players may have multiple aliases.
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* 'home' is now a standard command.
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* Errors in matching switches to commands are ignored when the command
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is hook/ignored or hook/overriden.
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* @attrib/access no longer treats one-word flag lists that don't match
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a single flag as a set of flag characters.
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* pcre updated to 6.4.
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* NT_TCP code has been removed from the server.
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* The FIXED flag's restriction on 'home' has been moved to restrict.cnf.
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* New commands: @edit/check, @function/preserve, @hook/list, @prompt,
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@nsprompt, @list/locks, UNIMPLEMENTED_COMMAND, PROMPT_NEWLINES,
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@poll/clear.
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* New functions: alias, fullalias, attrib_set, sortkey, namegrab/all,
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ns/prompt, textentries, cdesc, cusers, cmsgs, cbuffer, cstatus,
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clflags, numversion, nl/nsearch, nchildren, decompose, mapsql,
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wildgrep/i, ordinal, ulambda, speak, unique, nextdbref, namelist,
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crecall, l/m/x/xmwhoid, stringsecs
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* New attributes: invformat, mailforwardlist, mailfilter
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* New substitutions: %+, % (percent-space), %i0-%i9, %u
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* New locks: mailforward, take
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* New behaviors: @flag/alias, @attribute/access, flip(), reverse(),
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lsearch(), extract(), center(), setq(), setr(), page, align(),
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regedit(), delete(), @search, @pemit/list, @poll, width(), height(),
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locate(), @chan/recall, insert(), default(), @conformat, link().
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* New flags: loud, track_money.
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* New powers: pueblo_send, many_attribs.
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* New attribute flags: aahear, amhear.
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* New config directives: channel_flags.
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* New function restriction "localize" causes q-registers to be
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saved and restored around the function as if localize() or
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ulocal() were used; handy for @functions.
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* New DBREFLIST^<attrib> lock key checks to see if the enactor
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appears in a list of dbrefs/objids stored on an attribute of
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the object.
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* The LIGHT flag now overrides the DARK flag consistently.
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Minor Changes (since 1.8.1):
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* decompose() now properly handles all manner of spaces, as well as
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replacing 5 or more spaces with [space(<count>)]. Report by Malix. [GM]
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Fixes (since 1.8.1):
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* Fix crash bug in decompose(). Report by Malix.
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* The mush can listen to ports above 32000. Suggested by Nathan Baum.
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* Fix the mix() bug that prepends the separator to the list. [GM]
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* Win32 experienced erratic time behavior when compiled with MSVC++ 8
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or higher. Reported by Intrevis@M*U*S*H.
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* Win32 project and readme files for MSVC++ 6 and .Net updated. [EEH]
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* Help fixes by Kevin@M*U*S*H.
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