FILE: DBFILE.TXT HUB - Henry's Universe Builder DATA BASE MANAGEMENT -------------------------------------------------------------------- CK file Ck (or check) examines the english language file to see that it conforms to HUB plain text/ english format for objects. It is useful to help debug things. A DOS version is also available. HUBREAD file1 file2 <prefix> English files (described in basics.txt, combat.txt and doors.txt) must somehow be converted to raw form before the HUB driver can deal with them. hubread (in db/tools) performs this conversion. It APPENDS the raw data for the text file you are converting to the end of whatever file you name. So it is possible to build onto an existing raw DB file in this manner. Just be certain that every english file has a "#" mark before every entry. But not at the END of all entries for that file. If you want all objects within a given area to have ID's that start with the same character (say "@") then you simply invoke hubread as: hubread [english] [ofile] @ END OF DBFILE.TXT