/***************************************************************************
 *  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 ) );