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- From: mjr@TIS.COM (Marcus J. Ranum)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.tiny
- Subject: Re: Help with loaddb for Untermud, please!
- Message-ID: <9212310215.AA22195@TIS.COM>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 02:15:15 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.215113.27361@eskimo.com>
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- >When I run loaddb, the program just hangs there and I can kill it with
- >^C but it only creates the empty files and doesn't seem to be able to
- >read in the .oif file.
-
- loaddb -d -i input.oif
-
- The '-d' is if the database format is a standard dbm/chunk db.
-
- I *know* you didn't read DOC/wizard/howtostart, 'cuz I wrote
- that myself and it contains the relevant stuff:
- >The loaddb command (DB/loaddb) is used for translating raw OIF files into
- >whatever databasing format you choose to use. If you're using dbm or ndbm:
- > loaddb -d -i <OIF input file> -f <database name>
- >For gdbm, use -g instead of -d, and for hash directories, use -h instead of
- >the -d option. This will automatically create database files that UnterMUD
- >will happily read. (You need to be sure and tell UnterMUD where your
- >database is called, in DB/config.)
-
- mjr.
-