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Difference between revisions of "40d Talk:String dump"

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m (moved Talk:Broken/40d\x3aString dump to 40d Talk:String dump: Fixing talk page name (625/738))
 
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What is this? Gairabad 20:22, 11 November 2008 (EST)

I agree, is this even useful? it has three pages linking to it, and no one(did I spell that right?) would ever search for it. I found it because it had been edited recently, but only recently realized how unimportant it was, and then I had internet problems for a week or so. Anyway, whoever made this can tel us why it is useful, or else it should probably be deleted.--Destor 20:06, 24 December 2008 (EST)

It provides clues into what is hard-coded into the game. It's mostly of use to this wiki's editors, not to the game's players.--Maximus 02:25, 25 December 2008 (EST)
Its really useful for finding out how the game catagorizes items. I used one extensively while I was working on the reaction page. --Ikkonoishi 03:28, 25 December 2008 (EST)

so it is just basically the "game log sewage" of someone's fortress? Ok, you can leave it. I just really wanted to know what it is, and if it was of use to anyone, so just ignore this. nut maybe add a thing to thee article, so people like me will be less confused.--Destor 06:53, 25 December 2008 (EST)(happy holidays!)

Actually, I'm pretty sure that it's a dump of all the plaintext that can be found in the executable of dwarf fortress. As in, open dwarfort.exe in a hex editor and look for ascii, then dump it. Fieari 15:39, 25 December 2008 (EST)
Not of someone's fortress: it is a dump of all strings that are found in dwarfort.exe. I've added a line to the top of the page explaining what it is and what it's for, as you suggested.--Maximus 16:05, 25 December 2008 (EST)