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NAME
doc/README
DESCRIPTION
These man pages are organised in chapters, that are stored in
separate directories. A reference to foo(X) means the function
foo as descibed in chapter X, where X is one of:
A for applied/ member functions (lfuns) that the driver applies
to objects
C for concepts/ general concepts of LPMUD and LPC
D for driver/ some info about internal operation of the driver
E for efun/ the ``system calls'' of LPC
LPC for LPC/ about parts of the LPC language
M for master/ lfuns that are applied to the master object only
This collection does not contain anything about mudlib specific
object classes or lfuns, and also not about any simulated
efuns (from the simul_efun object), because all these are not
specific for the driver but for the particular installation.
Man-pages for the functions in the installation's simul_efun
object could go e.g. into the chapter SE (directory sefun/),
man pages for the standard objects (base classes) of the mudlib
would e.g. fit into chapter S (directory std/).
The man pages generally adhere to the following format, which
was inspired by the Unix man pages.
<manpage> ::= <section>+
There are one or more sections in a man page.
<section> ::= <section-name><newline><section-text><newline>
The section names are always at the beginning of a line, and
in all capital letters (debatable uglyness).
<section-name> ::= 'NAME' | 'CONCEPT' | 'SYNOPSIS'
| 'LAST UPDATED'
| 'SYNTAX' | 'DESCRIPTION' | 'AUTHOR' | 'BUGS'
| 'CAVEATS' | 'WARNING' | 'NOTE' | 'NOTES'
| 'EXAMPLE' | 'EXAMPLES' | 'HISTORY'
| 'SEE ALSO'
If a NAME or CONCEPT section occurs, it should give the name of
the man page.
If a SYNOPSIS section occurs, the name of the man page can be
derived from the function name, that appears in the line after
SYNOPSIS, which looks as follows:
<returntype><space>['*']<function-name>'('<parameter-prototypes>
SEE ALSO is followed by one or more lines that contain
crossreferences of the form
<crossreferences> ::=
<crossref>[','<white-space><crossref>]*<white-space><EOF>
<crossref> ::= <man-page-name>'('<chapter-abbrev>')'
The names of the referenced man pages are followed in brackets
by an abbreveiation for the chaper (i.e. directory) the man
page is in. The abbrevs are
If you want to process these man pages by some converter
program, you can use these to map the chapter names to file
names or whatever. There should be some sample awk scripts or
the like near this README file.
HISTORY
Most of the documentation is based on the 'driver-docs' collected
by Stefan 'Pepel' Petri up to Amylaar LPMud 3.2.1@141 and 3.2@316.
It was collectect from the original 2.4.5 docs, from the installed
docs of Nightfall, TubMud and MorgenGrauen.
Collection, correction and completion was done by Pepel@Nightfall,
with assistance and support by the LPC wizards of Nightfall,
TubMud, MorgenGrauen and TAPPMud, namely Hyp, Macbeth,
Mateese, and Marcus. Also to mention are Bumblebee, Boing,
Deepthought, Demos, Hate, Jof, Symmetry@TMI2.
The documentation was integrated into the driver distribution
in LDMud 3.2.6.
SEE ALSO
efun(E), applied(A), concepts(C), lpc(LPC), master(M), driver(D)