Markus Armbruster
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The .NA header promises information on "Clients which communicate well with the Empire4 Server". The page doesn't really deliver. It talks about client support for asynchronous notifications. It stopped listing separate client projects in 4.0.7 (1997). Not mentioning such clients isn't just outdated, it's actively misleading. Perhaps an up-to-date info page on clients would be useful, but I can't write one right now. Delete. Loses a bit of information for client developers that was tacked on in 4.0.7: pointers to dump commands, and an explanation of timestamps. I trust client writers can find "info xdump" without this. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@pond.sub.org>
60 lines
1.9 KiB
Perl
60 lines
1.9 KiB
Perl
.TH Command LOST
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.NA lost "Report lost items"
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.LV Basic
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.SY "lost"
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The lost command displays all lost items currently in the
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database for your country.
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.s1
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All lost items are timestamped at the time they were lost. If
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you had a previously lost item in the database, and then build a
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new item of the same type with the same ID, or regain an item of the
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same type with the same
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ID, it is removed from the database. This is done because the new item
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will now show up in the other dump commands, and is no longer lost.
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.s1
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Lost items are kept in the database for 48 hours (default) but may
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be kept longer at the deity's discretion. Also, issuing the lost
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command does not remove items from the database. That is where the
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timestamp functionality becomes important.
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.s1
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While the lost command does not take any arguments, it does
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take the standard syntax for selecting information.
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(see \*Qinfo Selector\*U).
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.s1
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A typical usage might be:
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.EX lost ?timestamp>854954677
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which would list data for all lost items timestamped after
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854954677. (Timestamps are kept in system seconds.)
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.s1
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A lost command lists all the lost items headed by:
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.NF
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Sun Feb 9 22:16:37 1997
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DUMP LOST ITEMS 855544597
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type id x y timestamp
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.FI
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The first line is the date. The second line is the
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"DUMP LOST ITEMS <timestamp>" where the <timestamp> field is the current
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timestamp. The third line is the columns which are output.
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.s1
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These columns represent:
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.s1
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.in \w'timestamp\0\0'u
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.L type
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The type of lost item. They are as follows:
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0 - Sector
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1 - Ship
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2 - Plane
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3 - Land unit
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4 - Nuclear stockpile
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.L id
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The # of the ship, plane, land unit or nuke. All of these items
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are identified by ID. Sectors are identified by x and y.
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.L x
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The x coordinate of the lost item when it was lost.
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.L y
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The y coordinate of the lost item when it was lost.
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.L timestamp
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The timestamp of when the item was lost.
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.in
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.s1
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.SA "xdump, dump, ldump, sdump, ndump, pdump, Ships, Planes, Nukes, LandUnits, Sectors"
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