This lets you send large amounts of data to the world in a single operation (eg. from a disk file). You might use this for sending attibutes to a MUSH or similar.
Commented Softcode
The purpose of this is to keep the (rather obscure) softcode commands in a text file with lots of comments in them. Then, in sending them to the MUSH the comments are stripped out.
Basically, there are two different kinds of softcode formatting - #-commented and @@-commented, with slightly different rules. The basic part is you take a segment like
&attrib Object=
Bleh
Bleh
Bleh
-
You start with the first line and append all subsequent lines until you get a '-' in the first column. The different commenting styles are like this:
# This is #-commenting
# Comments are determined by having a '#' in the first column.
&attrib Object=
Bleh
Bleh # This goes through as well - # not on first column
Bleh @@ In this case, @@ comments go through
-
The other commenting style
@@ This is @@-commenting
@@ Basically, anything after @@ on a line is stripped
MUSHclient determines which style to use by the first non-blank line of softcode.
If the first line starts with "#" then hash-commenting is used, otherwise the "@@" commenting style is used.
See Also ...
Topic
Sending to the world
Command
(ConfigureSendFile) Sets 'send file' options
Dialogs
Paste
Send
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