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Doc fix: don't claim empdump doesn't exist yet

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Markus Armbruster 2008-04-06 14:48:12 +02:00
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@ -328,12 +328,10 @@ A word on hard-coding. Clients hard-code *names*. The numbers used
for table IDs and to encode symbols are none of the client's business.
The encoding doesn't normally change within a game. Except when the
game is migrated to a sufficiently different server. That's a
difficult and risky thing to do, especially as there are no tools to
help with migrating (yet). Clients may wish to provide for such
changes anyway, by decoupling the client's encoding from the server's,
and dumping fresh meta-data on login. Incremental meta-data dump
would be nice to have.
game is migrated to a sufficiently different server. That's a rare
event. Clients may wish to provide for such changes anyway, by
decoupling the client's encoding from the server's, and dumping fresh
meta-data on login. Incremental meta-data dump would be nice to have.
So we don't know how symbol type and symbol set flags are encoded. To
decode them, we need their symbol tables. However, we need flags and