Glossary
- back_fix file
- The C header file which contains a list of repairs to the
Backlink file. This includes records to be deleted and
titles to correct. The corrections never modify the
actual episodes, they just make the Backlink file
correctly reflect the contents of the episodes. So far,
the only title fixes necessary have been to take care of
the double-quote bug. The back_fix file is compiled into
back_proc.
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- Backlink file
- The file which contains information about episodes that
are linkable. The name of the file is 'backlink.addv'.
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- Double-quote bug
- Due to the way data is passed between the two
episode-creation screens, if a title contains a
double-quote then all text from the double-quote onwards
is chopped off when the title is written to the Stat file
and the Backlink file. This does not affect the title
written to the episode file itself. This bug is the
reason that the list of linkable episodes on the
"add options" page contains so many blank lines
and lines without episode numbers.
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- Linkable episode
- An episode which, because it appears in the Backlink
file, can be linked to by later episodes. The episode
will say "Linking Enabled" at the end of its
file.
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- Orphan episode
- An episode which cannot be reached from its supposed
parent episode, usually because the parent was deleted
some time in the past. The episode may or may not have
been "taken", i.e., filled in by an author.
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- Stat file
- The file which contains information about every episode
in the Addventure (barring bugs). The name of the file is
'stat.addv'.
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- stat_fix file
- The C header file which contains a list of repairs to the
Stat file. This includes records to be added, records to
be deleted, titles to correct, and authors to correct.
The corrections never modify the actual episodes, they
just make the Stat file correctly reflect the contents of
the episodes. Sometimes if an author tells me that they
forgot to sign an episode, I'll use the stat_fix file to
change the Stat file to put their name onto that
episode's record. The stat_fix file is compiled into
stat_proc.
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Utility Programs
- AddReformat
- This program searches the current directory for saved
Addventure episodes (either in the
"######.html" format or the "Undending BE:
<title>[episode ######].html" format), renames
them to "######.html" and moves them into the
appropriate subdirectory for each episode (e.g.,
"034").
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- AddTree
- This program loads all the descendants of a specific
episode (or episode 2 if not specified) and displays them
in a Windows tree control. It has additional features for
opening the episodes in the browser, displaying by other
criteria, or generating special reports.
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- auth_graph
- Generates an author graph page from an author's episode
list.
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- back_proc
- Contains options for generating the Linkable Episode
Index.
- get_ep
- Reads in a Stat file (usually just the one for the
current month) and downloads those episodes from the
Addventure server to the hard drive.
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- get_titles
- Obsolete -- reads all the episodes in the Mirror and
stores the episode titles in a single text file.
Originally used for working on the double-quote bug.
- stat_db
- Obsolete -- converts the Stat file into a special format
that I was using for the original (now abandoned) index.
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- set_descend
- Adds descendant-count values to links in HTML files. So
far only used for the Storyline Tree files.
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- stat_proc
- The main utility program for generating Index files.
