[PENNMUSH-ANNOUNCE] 1.7.7-patch34

[Javelin]

The PennMUSH development team announces the release of 1.7.7-patch34

You can retrieve this patch, or a complete tarball of this version
of PennMUSH, from the PennMUSH download site http://ftp.pennmush.org/Source

Please read the instructions at the top of the patch file if using
a patch. Sometimes they differ slightly. Changes in this patch
are listed below.

Enjoy!

  Javelin, for the penndevs

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Flags and Powers:
  * Debit power allows the giving of negative amounts of money.
    Suggested by Hemlon at SevenStones.
  * The setting and resetting of flags and powers can be logged 
    by using the new 'log' restriction. Changes were made in
    flaglocal.dst which you must carry over into flaglocal.c
    (or, if you don't use flaglocal.c, just rm src/flaglocal.c and
    flaglocal.dst will be copied in its place). Suggested by Sholevi at M*U*S*H
    [SW]
  * Setting and resetting @powers are once again logged by default. [SW]
Locks:
  * @lock/speech can now be set by unprivileged players. @lock/speech
    now applies to all players (it is no longer automatically overridden
    by admin). SPEECH_LOCK`*FAILURE attributes can be used to override 
    the default failure messages when @lock/speech fails.
Commands:
  * ex/parent examines an object and shows attributes that will be
    inherited from its parents (if you are permitted to examine
    the parent as well). Suggested by BladedThoth at M*U*S*H. 
  * examine now shows the complete (examinable-by-enactor) chain of 
    parent objects, not just the nearest parent. Suggested by Luke at M*U*S*H.
Functions:
  * mailsend() is a function form of @mail/send. Suggested by Moe at ChicagoMUSH
  * ncon, nvcon, nexits, nvexits, nplayers, nvplayers, nwho, nvwho 
    functions to count the number of each thing. Patch by Walker at M*U*S*H.
  * xcon, xvcon, xexits, xvexits, xplayers, xvplayers, xwho, xvwho functions 
    to extract slices of potentially long contents, etc. lists. [Rhost,TM]
    Patch by Walker at M*U*S*H.
Minor changes (user-visible):
  * Players can no longer be set CHOWN_OK. Suggested by Intrevis at M*U*S*H.
    If you have existing CHOWN_OK players, you probably want to unset
    this from them, or the results will be confusing (they'll continue
    to appear to have the flag, even though it won't be testable or
    settable or clearable; this is desired behavior).
  * If you're See_All and Pemit_All, you may now @cemit on any channel.
    Based on a suggestion by Philip Mak.
  * Attempting to give a player more than max_pennies will give them
    enough to get them to max_pennies, instead of being treated as
    an error. Similarly, taking away more pennies than they have will
    take away exactly all their pennies.
  * Improved errors for unprivileged users doing @boot/port.
    Suggested by Intrevis at M*U*S*H. [TAP]
Minor changes (internals):
  * pre OS X Macintosh OSes are no longer supported. Hints for 
    Darwin are improved. [SW]
  * An extra file descriptor only needed on Sun OS boxes was being
    opened on all unix systems. [SW]
  * If no config file name is given on the netmush program's command line,
    it will assume you mean mush.cnf instead of quitting. You should still
    be using the restart script instead of netmush directly, though, as it
    does important things like using the right database... [SW]
  * 'make local-files' will copy all the src/*local.dst files to their
    respective .c counterparts. Suggested by Nymeria at M*U*S*H. [SW]
Fixes:
  * Configure handles the case where SO_KEEPALIVE works but TCP_KEEPIDLE isn't
    defined. [SW]
  * Win32 portability fixes and mingw hints. [EEH]
  * Raising max_logins from 0 with @config/set wouldn't take existing
    connections into account. [SW] 
  * $commands starting with # (that don't look like an @force by dbref)
    will now be matched. Reported by Intrevis at M*U*S*H.
  * version() is verbose again. Reported by Sholevi at M*U*S*H.
  * The double-add of SQL_OK on minimal.db is now really fixed.
    See p33 changes for information. Report by Mordie at M*U*S*H.
  * Help fixes by Kevin at M*U*S*H and Cerekk at bDv.
  * @boot/desc on one's own descriptor is no longer translated to
    @boot/me. [TAP]
  * Overflow of integer argument in giving pennies fixed. Report by
    Sholevi at M*U*S*H.
  * Typo in fun_vcross() fixed. [SW]
  * Configure does better when ssl shared libraries, but not static
    libraries, are available. You can use -D no_openssl to skip SSL checks.