/***************************************************************************
 *  Original Diku Mud copyright (C) 1990, 1991 by Sebastian Hammer,	   *
 *  Michael Seifert, Hans Henrik St{rfeldt, Tom Madsen, and Katja Nyboe.   *
 *									   *
 *  Merc Diku Mud improvments copyright (C) 1992, 1993 by Michael	   *
 *  Chastain, Michael Quan, and Mitchell Tse.				   *
 *									   *
 *  In order to use any part of this Merc Diku Mud, you must comply with   *
 *  both the original Diku license in 'license.doc' as well the Merc	   *
 *  license in 'license.txt'.  In particular, you may not remove either of *
 *  these copyright notices.						   *
 *									   *
 *  Much time and thought has gone into this software and you are	   *
 *  benefitting.  We hope that you share your changes too.  What goes	   *
 *  around, comes around.						   *
 ***************************************************************************/
 
/***************************************************************************
*	ROM 2.4 is copyright 1993-1998 Russ Taylor			   *
*	ROM has been brought to you by the ROM consortium		   *
*	    Russ Taylor (rtaylor@hypercube.org)				   *
*	    Gabrielle Taylor (gtaylor@hypercube.org)			   *
*	    Brian Moore (zump@rom.org)					   *
*	By using this code, you have agreed to follow the terms of the	   *
*	ROM license, in the file Rom24/doc/rom.license			   *
***************************************************************************/

/* externs */
extern char str_empty[1];
extern int mobile_count;

/* stuff for providing a crash-proof buffer */

#define MAX_BUF		16384
#define MAX_BUF_LIST 	10
#define BASE_BUF 	1024

/* valid states */
#define BUFFER_SAFE	0
#define BUFFER_OVERFLOW	1
#define BUFFER_FREED 	2

/* ban data recycling */
#define BD BAN_DATA
BD	*new_ban args( (void) );
void	free_ban args( (BAN_DATA *ban) );
#undef BD

/* buffer procedures */

BUFFER	*new_buf args( (void) );
BUFFER  *new_buf_size args( (int size) );
void	free_buf args( (BUFFER *buffer) );
bool	add_buf args( (BUFFER *buffer, char *string) );
void	clear_buf args( (BUFFER *buffer) );
char	*buf_string args( (BUFFER *buffer) );