The Sam Siam Muck Guides -- tips

The Sam Siam Guides
Muck Tips and Roleplaying Scenarios for Fuzzball Mucks

TINYGAMES
1. Introduction
2. Characters
3. Locations
4. Preparation

Welcome to the online version of my most popular zine, the Sam Siam guide to FurryMuck (Now with More Text!). You'll be thrilled. Really. Collect the whole series!. Chock full of good advice and good karma.

The LSEDITOR'S Choice

LSEDIT is probably the bane of most people's existance -- unless, of course, you grew up with DOS and suffered through EDLIN or (worse) Unix and its various editors.

LSEDIT is the "friendly" editor for Fuzzball Mucks (it's friendlier than writing a long @desc with escaped slashes and all that in it. Trust me on this one.) So, for all you new ones and all you befuddled ones, here's how it works (note: this is the simple level stuff -- not the more complex stuff).

Starting it up: You type LSEDIT (and the name of something)=(a list name). For example, to edit a description on a wand, I might type:
LSEDIT WAND=WDESC

At this point, you begin typing and you hit the carriage return (ENTER) at the end of every line of text. There's help available if you get stuck, though it's not always obvious what to do.

The commands:

.abort - quits the editor and doesn't save whatever you were doing.

.del - Deletes a line. Do a ".p" first to see what the line number is -- then delete it. ".del 1 10" will delete lines 1 through 10.

.end - quits the editor and saves the file. Don't do this unless the changes are exactly what you wanted.

.format - Fixes problems where you've messed up the carriage returns (or not put them in at all.)
".format 1 30=75" changes everything in lines 1 through 30 to a 75 character column width. This will fix descriptions where the text wanders and breaks in odd places.

.h - Pulls up the help screen with these commands.

.i - Inserts a line BEFORE that line number. ".i 1" inserts a line at the beginning of the file.

.l - Lists lines. ".l 1 10 will list lines 1 through 10 (be sure that there's a space (not a dash) between the first line and the last line.)

.p - Lists the lines with the line number in front of them. You need to know the line number for the heavy duty editing stuff.

The other commands are more useful for coding and programming. These are the ones most often used in writing descriptions.

The Sam Siam Manuals are a series of help manuals and Tiny Game gaming manuals for Muck users. They're written for the average person -- who knows how to use computers but who isn't familiar with Muck programming.

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