Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 20:25, Luke-Jr wrote:
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>> On Wednesday 03 December 2003 12:47 am, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> > If you're getting rid of the virtuals file and calculating on-demand,
>> > why not the world file too?
>> Maybe because the world file cannot truly be recreated?

> Yeah that's true in the current system afaik..but after all, this is
> "ng."

The information contained in the world file is not duplicated; if you
want to be able to regenerate it, it would have to be backed up
somewhere, which isn't very useful.  (Perhaps it should be called
something like ``automatically-update'' instead of ``world,'' though.)

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Jeremy Maitin-Shepard

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