changes.4

A Backlog of Hardcode Changes in TinyMARE v1.0.6889-v1.0.7307, Winds Year 0008.

----June 26, 1999
 1. Released TinyMARE Weather System version 2.0.  New features:
     Configurable climate on individual sectors, zones, and rooms.
     Allows individual rooms to be marked "Inside" for no weather messages.
     New data for underground currents such as air type and wind flow velocity.
     Includes realistic formulas implemented using climatology patterns.
     Supports freezing, frostbite, and heat exhaustion with the combat system.
----July 11, 1999
 1. Weather System now keeps tracked of record high/low temperatures, monthly
     rainfall, and top windspeed using Configuration Environment variables.
----July 12, 1999
    Began preparatory work for combat system revision 3.

 1. New +party formation system supports 8 different party formation types
     for up to 20 party members per formation. A grid-like display shows the
     current party formation with the leader marked in Yellow, players with
     less than 1/4th MaxHP marked in Red, and those with ailments such as
     Poison marked in Green.
 2. Modified the database loader to support new party formation data to be
     saved during reboots, unfortunately breaking older versions of the
     loader. Fortunately, a stable +party system never existed before so the
     loader should pass right by without a complaint.
 3. Restored the 'save' and 'quests' commands.
----July 13, 1999
 1. New condition subsystem using the built-in technique tables (slot 6) that
     exist on every database object. This allows for a dynamic system of 1,024
     separate conditions with several properties (Limited Wish, Innate Racial
     Abilities, Protect Against X, Inflict X, Remedy X) on each player and
     enemy. Since it is technique based, conditions can also be stored on
     rooms, thus dropping the need for "Temporary Unsaved Dataflags" (DFlags).
     Also, the different types allow conditions with higher priority (Wishes,
     for example) to mask out those of lower priority.
 2. Coded a new @setcond command which supports hash-table condition lookups
     and the ability to set or clear conditions of various types on objects.
 3. Restored the ability to view severe ailments in the captions of players
     when looking in the room, prioritized by showing the most severe first.
----July 14, 1999
 1. Fixed several old problems with '+party leader/rank/row'. Now players may
     fall back to lower rank at any time during a party, and only the party
     leaders may move someone up in rank or promote another to leadership
     status. Also, switching to a new rank slides everyone up in place rather
     than just switching the ranks of players 1 and 2.
 2. New condition-checking system implemented with the routine bad_cond().
     This routine is assigned a structure of fatal conditions for various
     activities independently (Move, Fight, Skills, Spells, etc). It should
     make new code much more reliable in figuring out which command allows
     which conditions to persist.
----July 16, 1999
 1. New selectable Experience Point system that takes one of three values:
     0: All experience points are cumulative, even over levelups.
     1: Experience points are reset to zero at time of levelup.
     2: No automatic levelups. Levels are bought according to EXP accumulated.
 2. Rewrote experience point tables to force Level 100 to require 150,000,000
     Total EXP, and match with the amount needed from Level 99: 7,500,000 EXP.
 3. Integrated the Levelquest subsystem into the new status levelup routines
     in order to block entrance to certain levels that have not been completed
     by required levelquests.
----July 17, 1999
 1. Finished work on the new Race Selection and Status Levelup implementation.
 2. Restored the @levelquest, @exp_raise, and @init commands.
----July 18, 1999
 1. Restored the behavior, wimpy, and +language commands.
----July 22, 1999
 1. Added a new switch to the 'examine' command, /tech, which allows those
     with POW_COMBAT to examine the full technique lists stored on any player
     or object. Example: ex/tech me
----July 23, 1999
 1. Completely rewrote the condition system to support a number of new query
     options, including C_NOEQUIP, C_ANYTYPE, C_ANYLEVEL, and C_ANY. The size
     of the condition table is now allocated during runtime instead of at
     compile time, thus allowing for a much smaller executable. Maximum number
     of conditions is fixed at 1024.
 2. Fixed several bugs in condition reporting and in @list items, which had an
     off-by-one error.
----July 24, 1999
 1. Changed around the language list a little, and fixed percentage ranges at
     which known languages have different abilities and effects in the game.
 2. Finished technique list manipulation and restored the @addtech & @deltech
     commands.
 3. Added support for the Cygwin developer tools package for compiling TinyMARE
     on Windows 95/98/NT.
----July 25, 1999
 1. Implemented a new Real-Time Battle Speed control, based on your Agility
     versus everyone elses in the room. Duration between two attacks can never
     exceed 6 seconds and is never faster than 3 seconds (with the exception of
     wielding special race weapons).
----August 11, 1999
 1. Removed the unnecessary fcntl() to set all active connections Non-Blocking.
----August 14, 1999
 1. Reinstated the @oconnect, @odisconnect, and @weight object attributes.
----August 15, 1999
 1. Fixed a problem with @purge not displaying currently disconnected rooms.
     This fix also correctly counts disconnected rooms at startup now.
 2. Rewrote the disconnected rooms check using a much quicker stack-based
     algorithm instead of a function-intensive recursive one.
----August 22, 1999
 1. Matched weather query routines to display night and day based on the value
     of the environment configuration variable TIMEOFDAY and not based on the
     current time in relation to sunrise and sunset. This fixes all problems
     concerning testing different cases of weather by temporarily modifing
     TIMEOFDAY. Note that changing the game clock without manually setting the
     TIMEOFDAY might have the wrong value for at most 12 hours.
----August 23, 1999
 1. Fixed @vlock to block being able to match exits even under MATCH_INVIS.
     MATCH_INVIS no longer matches disconnected players either.
----August 26, 1999
 1. Version and copyright information is now actually compiled into the
     executable (the right way) instead of being stored in a easy-accessible,
     modifyable sysinfo/ directory (the wrong way).
 2. Completely rewrote the 'configure' script to set up a 'config.in' file
     from which all Makefiles get their information from. Thus, makefiles
     themselves no longer created via 'configure'.
----August 28, 1999
 1. Fixed an error in unparse_color() for type 8, filtering color from pages
     and +com through geographic flags (dark room, nighttime sector, etc).
----September 2, 1999
 1. Added full support for 11 total status attributes, adding CON and WIL to
     the list. @list race/guild now print out each attribute column selectively
     based on a nonzero race modification value set for Humans.
 2. Added two new races, Satyr and Drow.
 3. Added the feature '@list race=scale' for wizards to see the direct scale
     of racial modifications used in determining +/-'s.
----September 6, 1999
 1. Implemented an easy index into status attributes for equip modifications
     and use in offensive spells.
----September 8, 1999
 1. Expanded the total number of enemy families possible from 15 to 255.
----September 23, 1999
 1. Rewrote race selection to grab only those races that are valid for the
     player.
----September 25, 1999
 1. Finalized a database of 128+ minerals available for use in forging.
----September 26, 1999
 1. Added a new flag to a levelquest, LockEXP, which keeps a player's EXP from
     going over the amount needed to levelup until the levelquest is completed.
 2. Added a new flag to the @reboot command, Validate, which keeps the game
     from saving temporary configuration such as +party data and semaphores.
 3. The DB loader now correctly preserves town/chapter/levelquest data over
     games that don't have the combat system compiled in.
----September 27, 1999
 1. TinyMARE now supports non-GNU 'make' and FreeBSD in its configure scripts.
----October 9, 1999
 1. Fixed a buffer-overflow bug in @paste with over 8k of text at once.
----October 10, 1999
 1. Fixed an error in verifying passwords over 8 characters in length.
----October 21, 1999
 1. Added a third argument to the lnum() function to specify stepping.
 2. Built-in lock attributes now inherit @locks from parented objects.
----October 24, 1999
 1. Fixed a bug in being able to spoof messages with players' first names in
     rooms players are located in.
----October 26, 1999
 1. Fixed a bug in allowing extra unnecessary parameters to a function.
----November 5, 1999
 1. Timezones are now set correctly by default during MUSE database conversion
     where the @tz attribute is not set.
 2. Fixed an infinite loop with compressing crypted passwords for libc5 users.
----November 6, 1999
 1. Merged the time format procedures together into 1 code function.
----November 12, 1999
 1. Fixed a bug in '@list players' not listing anyone without a combat status.
----November 30, 1999
 1. Removed the System Timer error messages when the system clock is adjusted.
----December 1, 1999
    TinyMARE Version 1.0.7101 released.

 1. Added support for a new MAILHOST environment variable to specify a server
     to use for outgoing email other than "localhost". The original MAILHOST
     was renamed to SMTP_SERVER to specify the smtp-mode server name.
----December 2, 1999
 1. Wizards @chowning objects that do not have the Chown_Ok flag will no longer
     automatically set the object Haven.
 2. Fixed several crash problems in objects referencing a command with the 'me'
     argument on player-only commands such as +last, @chownall, @stats, etc.
     Functions were also fixed in this manner.
 3. The ' token when used with talking on a +com channel will no longer expand
     to a [to Playername] block if the name doesn't match a connected player.
 4. Rewrote the way @nuke performs on a player currently logged in. The server
     now waits until the player is properly booted before destroying his char.
     This fixes some odd crash bugs under the Windows port.
----December 4, 1999
 1. New bitrange() wizard-combat function to print the number of bits set to 1
     in a certain range of a player's bitmap.
 2. Fixed a buffer overflow error in strcat(). Expanded the use of strcat() to
     more than 2 arguments maximum.
----December 5, 1999
 1. User-defined attributes set with the 'function' type can no longer be
     @triggered.
 2. Fixed a fatal crash error in using wordflip() with a delimiter.
 3. Fixed a bug in player reinitialization that did not remove all old race
     channels before switching races.
 4. Fixed a buffer overflow in adding infinite +channels in the +com system.
 5. Added a term() function to retrieve +term configuration data on players.
 6. Terminal settings "Status Bar" and "Protocol" can now be set using +term.
----December 7, 1999
 1. HTML Requests now time-out after 5 minutes of inactivity.
----December 9, 1999
 1. @flush <player>=input now flushes all unread data from the connection.
----December 11, 1999
 1. Fixed a problem in the @lock mechanism with multiple [function()] terms
     stacked inside of each other.
----December 12, 1999
 1. Rewrote the boolean grammar parser for the @lock mechanism. Added several
     new lock types to conform with TinyMUSH's standard. Old locks remain
     compatible across prior versions of TinyMARE.
 2. Wildcard-pattern matching with >string or <string is now case-insensitive.
 3. Fixed a bug in comp() returning weird numeric values.
----December 14, 1999
 1. A warning message is now emitted when a Wizard tries to set an Indirect-
     lock on an object that the Wizard can read, but the object cannot.
----December 18, 1999
 1. Efficiency fix in evaluating foreach() and oper() that go past the defined
     value MAX_FUNCTIONS.
----December 19, 1999
 1. Restricted flag on zones is now only wizard-settable.
 2. @list powers now takes the name or number of a power as an argument.
----December 20, 1999
 1. Added support for configuration variable DB_LIMIT to limit the number of
     objects that can be created in the database.
 2. Added additional protection against @clone/@aclone recursion.
 3. Fixed an interesting problem in @inactivity nuking players. The game would
     correctly detect the last login time of the player to be more than 30
     days ago, but automatically @nuke this person even if he/she was still
     logged in after 30 days. :-)
 4. Added support for Guest character classes. Player ranks are now pushed up
     by 1 in the database save file. Guests cannot be created yet.
----December 23, 1999
 1. Fixed a bug in +sbar not turning off the background color during writes to
     the fixed scroll region.
 2. Fixed a problem with @sbar <player>=off|on not updating itself correctly.
----December 24, 1999
 1. @paste now takes <playername> as an argument. The player must be connected,
     in the same room, and not locked against pages for messages to be sent.
----December 27, 1999
 1. Fixed a bug in @levelquest wrongly setting the bitmap variable on the
     player who issued the command rather than on the target.
----December 29, 1999
 1. Fixed a user-defined attribute problem while copying attributes in @clone.
----December 30, 1999
 1. Added a new time conversion routine for arguments to the time(), date(),
     rtime(), and xtime() functions. This allows the user to type in a specific
     time in many string formats: mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss, using the output format
     of time(), or word phrases such as '4 score and 7 years ago'. It retains
     the compatibility of using a single integer to represent the number of
     seconds that have elapsed since the epoch: January 1, 1970.
 2. Extended the time conversion format to the @destroy obj=<delay> command.
----January 6, 2000
 1. Added min() and max() functions that take up to 100 arguments.
----January 9, 2000
 1. The function parser now checks function names for spaces or symbols before
     in commands before testing for user-defined functions.
 2. +finger information no longer prints the Level of a player if there are no
     combat attributes stored.
----January 17, 2000
 1. Fixed a bug in removing race channels during an @init if the player has no
     other channels turned on.
----January 18, 2000
 1. The database incremental resize of 1000 objects is now protected from out-
     of-memory errors. A bug has been fixed that also prevents the db_top from
     increasing by 1 each time a @create attempt fails.
----January 22, 2000
 1. New spell database subsystem implemented! This system allows game creators
     to define their own spells in a static database with item numbers ranging
     from 0 to 9999. Spells can take on one of 80 types and be set with as many
     as 50 attributes, referenced by item number. A binary search algorithm is
     implemented on a resizable array for maximum efficiency. Commands added:

      @addspell <number>=<spell name>	- Adds a spell to the database.
      @delspell <number>		- Removes a spell.
      $name <number>=<new name>		- Renames an existing spell.
      $<attr> <number>=<value>		- Sets or clears a spell attribute.
      @list spells			- Shows all spells defined in database.
      @list spells=<name/number>	- Views spell attributes.
      @list spellattr			- Lists attrs one can use with spells.

    Spell attributes 0-127 take integer values while 128-255 take text strings.
     One may use the findsp(name) and sprslt(player, num, attr#) functions to
     return the spell number when given a name, or get the result of an
     attribute# on a particular spell <num> respectively.
----January 23, 2000
 1. Fixed a bug in swapping @ause and @ouse attributes while converting from a
     TinyMUSE database.
----January 28, 2000
 1. Fixed a bug in viewing idle() and onfor() functions for hidden players.
----January 29, 2000
 1. The number of rows and columns on the screen is now automatically detected
     at login time, if supported by the player's telnet program. Players may
     still use +term to set their default rows and columns in case the game
     cannot set them appropriately.
----February 3, 2000
 1. Fixed a bug that swapped rows & columns during @reboots.
----February 4, 2000
 1. Netmare can now correctly read textfiles in Macintosh format.
 2. Fixed a buffer overrun while adding text to a @paste during @reboot.
----February 7, 2000
 1. Files etc/condition.db and etc/plants.db are now loaded at game startup.
----February 8, 2000
 1. Added a new function, factor(), which does prime factorization of a number.
----February 9, 2000
 1. Reworked Telnet Is-A-Command characters into macros for most prompts at the
     server level.
----February 12, 2000
 1. New condition module subsystem created for handling saving throws against
     ailment/status-changing levels on players.
 2. Added the hascond() function to match for ailments or relics on a player.
 3. Modified the log() function to take a second argument as the base.
----February 17, 2000
 1. Added multi-dimensional plane support, including the @plane and plane()
     commands to set and retrieve values.
----February 19, 2000
 1. Removed the Key and Marked object flags.
 2. Restored the @unlock command to what it was originally designed to do:
     remove the lock on an object.
 3. Added the Transparent flag for locked exits.
 4. @ufail is no longer reported for messages that don't pass the @ulock for
     !-Events.
 5. Fixed a memory leak in the @destroy command not removing techniques when
     compiled without the Combat System module.
 6. You are now able to @delparent from an object you don't own that is not set
     Bearing.
 7. New configuration variable, MAIL_EXPIRE, sets the number of days after
     reading a +mail message that the message is automatically deleted.
----February 20, 2000
 1. Fixed a bug in @destroying objects with players inside them.
 2. Fixed a bug in setting the dropto of a room to itself.
 3. God is now automatically added to the common log channels on a new game.
 4. Fixed a major bug in the command queue parser with ANSI escape sequences.
 5. @pemit,@remit,etc. no longer notify the player that the message was sent.
----February 23, 2000
 1. Redefined all attributes as enum's to conserve space and make some arrays
     compile correctly.
----February 24, 2000
 1. Separated the original db/load.c into two files: db/load.c and db/convert.c
 2. TinyMare can now load the TinyMush-3 database format.
 3. Added the @lparent @addparent-lock for Bearing objects.
 4. Rewrote the entire database object loader and rule information. Each DB
     type now looks at the entire set of available post-load fixups and
     individually determines if it needs to run each one.
 5. Added several speedups to I/O initialization & compression routines.
 6. Implemented the [-t dbfile] command-line option to test-load the specified
     database file. It reads the file, does general post-load fixups and
     destroys invalid objects, and dumps the contents in plain-text to stdout.
 7. Removed the restrictions on ANSI color in the unparse() function.
 8. The "Recycling Old Objects" database rule has been made much faster.
----February 25, 2000
 1. "File not found" messages in io/file.c are now printed correctly.
----February 27, 2000
 1. Added the function zoneattr() which acts like get(), but scans the zones a
     player is inside of and returns the first matching attribute.
----March 2, 2000
 1. TinyMare can now convert color codes specified by the | symbol from
     different MUSE databases (versions 11, 14, and 15).
----March 3, 2000
 1. Fixed a buffer overwrite while using the unparse() function on an object
     with a valid @color attribute.
 2. Objects with $-Events and a failed @ulock will now display the default
     'Unrecognizable Command' message if no @ufail and @aufail are set.
----March 4, 2000
 1. Added the Destroy_Ok flag for objects. Such objects must be carried in
     order to be destroyed.
 2. TinyMARE Version 1.0.7251 released.
----March 5, 2000
 1. Added support for compiling under HP-UX.
 2. Corrected the 'dirsize' script for old versions of 'awk' and 'size'.
 3. Fixed a bug in incorrectly reporting the size of the mailfile if it does
     not exist.
----March 9, 2000
 1. Examining objects owned by Wizards will no longer tell you who owns them
     when the config variable HIDDEN_ADMIN is set.
 2. Fixed a bug in allowing execution of commands restricted to POW_ANIMATION.
----March 10, 2000
 1. Fixed several buffer overruns in commands when a player's +term Columns
     value is extended to 500.
 2. @list now only shows the options available based on the player's powers
     and the combat system configuration.
----March 14, 2000
 1. @list players no longer displays levels unless Combat is turned on.
----March 30, 2000
 1. Fixed a mysterious background database dump problem on HP-UX v11.
----April 9, 2000
 1. New document explaining how to set up TinyMare inbound/outbound email using
     sendmail 8.10.1.
 2. Fixed a buffer overrun in running incoming SMTP mode during a @reboot.
 3. Changed the format of newline characters stored in the mailfile.
 4. Released TinyMARE +Mail Version 2.2.1.
----April 15, 2000
 1. Optimized in-memory text compression routines to go twice as fast, and to
     offer more compression for repeated symbols and patterns.
----April 18, 2000
 1. Dropping objects into a room now triggers that room's @drop/odrop/adrop no
     matter if it has a Dropto set or not.
----April 19, 2000
 1. The wholist no longer prints the number of administrators when the config
     variable HIDDEN_ADMIN is set.
----April 21, 2000
 1. Fixed a bug in parsing user identification from a remote host.
 2. Added optimization to the strncpy() function by not padding strings with
     null bytes anymore. This speeds up output-intensive commands by about 25%.
----April 29, 2000
 1. Added support for optimization on the IA64 architecture.
 2. The configure script now prompts you for any extra libraries or flags to
     pass to the GCC compiler.
 3. Rewrote big-endian parsing and sped up database loading and saving by 60%.
----April 30, 2000
 1. Fixed math functions asin(), acos(), and abs() to use the floating-point
     versions of abs().
----May 1, 2000
 1. TinyMARE Version 1.0.7300 released.
----May 6, 2000
 1. Fixed a bug in typing a command beginning with # and no number after it.
 2. Optimized the ctype functions (isdigit,tolower,etc.) to bypass locale.
----May 16, 2000
 1. Fixed a bug in matching for "localhost" on machines that remap the IP
     address "127.0.0.1" to a different name than "localhost".
----May 17, 2000
 1. Fixed a segmentation fault while trying to view the wholist on the http
     port before the first user is created in the database.