Documentation for using the programs in travprog.zip:

there are four files in this .zip

1) sectmass.bas  MS DOS 6.22 Quickbasic (qb.exe) source for the sector 
massager program.  This splits the dgp (genie) sector data into subsector 
data that can be used with the sub2ps subsector mapping program. It 
could be used to split subsectors for other programs, such as 
Galactic, but it will have to be modified.

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VERY IMPORTANT:  The genie files have to be edited to remove the 
first 13 lines (all the header information) leaving just the actual 
data.
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the key part of the program is this line, which determines which subsector a
world is in, depending on it's hex number: 

ssec% = ((hx% \ 100) - 1) \ 8 + 1 + (((hx% MOD (100)) - 1) \ 10) * 4' 
get subsector number

where hx% is the hex number derived from the first part of the genie 
files. This gives you a subsector number from 1 to 16, and can be 
used to direct output into the appropriate subsector file (I have it 
written so that the subsector files use this as their file type: for 
instance the solomani sector file is split into solomani.01 through 
solomani.16 )

A lot of the code is actually devoted into getting the output file 
right for sub2ps, and just splitting the subsector files could be 
accomplished in a lot fewer lines.

2) Biglist.txt is a text file containing the data for neighboring 
sectors, the name of the sector, and the filename of the sector data like:

GLIMMERD,Glimmerdrift Reaches,Ley Sector,Hinterworlds,Delphi,Unknown

FileName, SectorName, CoreWard neighbor, RimWard neighbor, Spinward 
neighbor, and AntispinWard neighbor in that order.

The Sectmass program looks for a file called biglist.txt in it's 
directory, so if you do a subset, like I did, rename biglist.txt and 
make your subset biglist.txt

3) hardtimes.bas is a program that "Post Virus-ify's" a sector using the 
collapse rules in the TNE manual. It produces a sector's worth of 
data, replacing the last three letters of the source file name with 
'_cl'.  the output can then be run through sectmass to produce 
post-collapse subsector data.

Both hardtimes and sectmass are real kludges of programs, but they work. I
hope I've commented them well enough so that they could be ported to other
languages. Feel free to steal any of it you want to achieve what you want. 

4) Travdoc.txt  This file.


Bruce Johnson

bjohnson@u.arizona.edu

http://www.u.arizona.edu/~bjohnson/