Shared String Manager for Envy 1.0
Written by Fusion <msmith@falcon.mercer.peachnet.edu>
Port to NeXt by Jason Dinkel.

If you downloaded this as ssm-1.0.tar.gz then save.c and db.c
come with the code. If your mud is STOCK Envy 1.0 then just replace
the files. The only non related mod is a line in the memory command
that lists the mobile count. There is a new variable in create_mobile
and free_char to count them. Every other mod is for the string patch.

This is all that needs to be changed in the base Envy and it should be
identical for Merc. I have no idea what ROM's string code is like so
I can't say, but if it is the standard no-freeing Merc code then you
may want to think about adding my patch. Using OLC now should have
no bearing on the runtime (gradual buildup of read-only strings).
The latest version of ssm.c should be with Jason Dinkel's ILAB OLC
and possibly Envy 2.0 if Kahn goes with it.

Let me know if you have problems or if I missed something.
Lost Realms has been running for 3 months with this code without
any data corruption or dangling pointers.


Fusion
msmith@falcon.mercer.peachnet.edu