Hello, If you happen to have a version of hedit that has a function named save_other_helps in it, take a close look at the function, and you'll notice that it will destroy area files. Example on how to cause problems:
- First, back up your areas! - Stand in Mud School, or any other area with no helps in it at the moment. - Create a new help without specifying an area name to create it in the area you are standing in: 'new blahblah', fill out the fields, etc. - asave changed, or asave the area. - Shell in to your server and tail <area>.are, or 'ls -l school.are' to note its size. It has saved correctly. - Now edit the help file once again; modify the text, for example. - Once more, asave changed. - Shell in to your server and tail <area>.are, or notice its size. Oops. - Congratulations, you now have an 80-byte (or so) area file! One workaround (this is not particularly the best workaround, if you have discovered this problem yourself and have found a more elegant solution, your post would be appreciated): Comment out all calls to save_other_helps and instead add this line to function hedit_level, hedit_keyword, hedit_text, right before the final return: SET_BIT(ch->in_room->area->area_flags, AREA_CHANGED); Note that you may have a different version of hedit or a fixed version of hedit, and this may not apply to you. Thanks for your time, Jeremy Hill
