[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#11981) Docs: helpdata.txt: player name vs username

["Mike Kaufman" <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11981 >

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 01:47:18AM -0800, Egor Vyscrebentsov wrote:
> 
>   - Messages starting with 'John:' are private messages to 'John'.
> Names can be abbreviated. The server looks for players named 'John'
> and if that fails tries to match a username beginning with 'John' (like
> 'Johnathan')
> 
> In one place we have player name, in second - username.
> Is last right?

In the the second place the server is matching against usernames where the
first four letters of the username are 'J' 'o' 'h' 'n': like the
hypothetical username: 'Johnathan'. Is that more clear?

-mike