[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [Freeciv] Controlling date progression?

[Ed Cogburn <ecogburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 08:20:58AM -0400, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> > P.S.    What about starting the game at an earlier time than 4000BC?
> > There's evidence that agriculture and animal domestication started
> > earlier than this.  US News has an article about it in the current
> > issue.
> 
> 7000 BC ?
> 10000 BC ?
> Anyway idea is good.


        7000BC may be good.  The article I read just a few days ago spoke
about evidence of animal domestication (pigs of all things) roughly
9000 years old.


> 
> > P.P.S.  Has anyone considered the use of the readline library for the
> > server's command line to allow history recall and line completion?
> 
> More people than you expected.
> But there is technical problem with select() and readline.
> 
> I made perl readline frontend to civserver.
> It is available in freeciv-dev archives, if you want, I will
> send it to you.


        I don't know any Perl, I'm afraid.  I know a little of the scripting
language Python, and C, but thats it.


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Ed C.