Re: game design

From: "stan" <gilgmesh@swbell.net>

Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 00:00:00 +0000

Perl is a good tool for this, even under windows. it's got a library for
accessing email straight from your POP server, removing ONLY the emails you
want to where you need them. You can even go as far as having Perl parse and
sort the emails into the formats you require from your c/c++ program.
Best of all you can learn enough to be dangerous with over a weekend!

"JonMMorris" <jonmmorris@aol.comnospam> wrote in message
news:20000809211452.29852.00000061@ng-fw1.aol.com...
> I wouldn't touch Outlook with a ten foot pole but you should be able to
access
> Outlook e-mails with calls from a Visual Basic program (and probably
Visual C++
> too).
>
> You will need network authorizations for your program to prowl through the
> e-mail server.  If you have an in with the sys admin then you're okay.  If
you
> are using an ISP, they will most likely tell you to drop dead (politely) -
your
> program is difficult to distinguish from a hacker's attack and they have
little
> reason to trust you not to launch a Melissa into their system.
>
> An alternate strategy would be to post some forms on a website.  Using
> server-side scripting (VBscript, JavaScript, Perl, etc.), you could dump
the
> contents into a database.  You can FTP the whole DB for local manipulation
or
> just write some scripts to query it at your ISP.
>
> Best of luck.
> John
>
>
>
> Grenade boy wrote:
> >>>For now, I am happy trying to figure out how my game will work on a
> conceptual basis. The question that has me puzzled right now is this:
> how can I download messages from Outlook and place them into a specific
> folder? Can anyone recommend a utility that does this? Also, when I
> process orders, should I read through each individual email, or should
> I go through each email and combine those emails into a 'master order
> list'. Example of master order list:
>
> BEGIN
> Player #3434
> ...
> ...
> ...
> END
> BEGIN
> Player# 3435
> ...
>
> The advantage of the master list is that I can easily scan through the
> list and pick out orders based upon priority (for example, battles
> orders come before move orders), and once I am through the list, I can
> scan it again and again. Conceptually, it seems easier to process
> orders in this manner rather than scanning many different files.
>
> Your throughts would be appreciated.
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References

game design
grenadeboy@yahoo.com
Wed, 09 Aug 2000 00:00:00 +0000
Re: game design
jonmmorris@aol.comnospam (JonMMorris)
Thu, 10 Aug 2000 00:00:00 +0000