[PENNMUSH] News and Theme files

[Alan Schwartz]

Quoting Alienplayer (alienplayer at gmail.com):
> Just spent some serious time looking for info online followed by some
> more serious time trying to (again) figure it out for myself.  Am at
> wit's end at this point.  Help?
> 
> I'm running PennMUSH 1.8.1p4
> 
> I tried putting subordinate news files into the .nws subdirectory, and
> every time news.txt remade the text in NEWS on the MUSH got scrambled.
> I'd pull up NEWS <topic> and text would begin on the second line of
> the first paragraph, in the middle of the second paragraph, or end
> somewhere randomly within the text.  I finally said naughty words and
> put every single NEWS file in news.txt and hand-edited the & Entries
> line.  I now have NEWS files, but not the way they're supposed to
> work.

Could you be mixing different line-end styles (e.g., editing
on both a unix system that uses LF at end-of-line and a Windows
system that uses CRLF or a Mac that uses CR only)?

> On to Theme files.  Well, I tried, but nothing I did would let me get
> 'theme' to return anything but 'Huh?' from in the MUSH.  Yes, my
> config.msh has been properly uncommented to allow theme files. And
> events files.
> 
> So I tried Events.  This exercise in futility began with the MUSH
> apparently incapable of  reading ~txt/evt/events.evt or
> ~/txt/events.evt but instead heading straight for
> ~/txt.evt/pennmush.evt which reads that it's TinyMUSH and there are no
> files available.

This sounds like your configuration file is screwed up, again
possible due to editing across mixed operating systems which 
may have left wrong end-of-line characters. What OS are you on?
If unix, can you examine the file with some editor that will
show you line-endings (e.g. vim -b) and let you see if that's the
problem.


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