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Wizard Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 1551 Location: Australia

#sh 172.20.4.101
will actually display 172.2.4.101

#mxp <relocate 172.20.4.101 23>
will cause the redirect to go to 172.2.4.101

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 6:50 am

Odd. But CMUD works with strings more than zMUD ever did... so you'd want:

#sh "172.20.4.101"

and possibly

#MXP <relocate "172.20.4.101">

Just a thought.

Charneus

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 6:55 am

Or even better, #mxp "<relocate 172.20.4.101>".

Wizard Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 1551 Location: Australia

I was experiencing the problem when the IP was coming from a variable / stringlist but I figured if you can fix the parser so "#SH <ip>" works, then more complex things such as variables/lists should also work too. In particular I had a stringlist of 100ish IP's and I was iterating over the list and doing a relocate to each, the IP's which had a '0' in the second octet got crunched.

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:01 pm

This will happen if CMUD tries to treat the value as a number. I don't know why it's converting the 20 to a 2, but I'll add that to the bug list to look at. My guess is that the floating point conversion is seeing "172.20" and converting this to just 172.2, which is a valid floating point conversion.

As everyone has already said, if you want to force CMUD to use a string value, then you need to put quotes around it. If it is coming from a variable, then the normal auto-type should work fine, unless CMUD thinks you are trying to use it as a number. You can then set the variable to a fixed Literal String type to try and solve that. You can also use the %string() function to ensure that a value is treated as a string. But we would need to see the more specific script that is having problems to offer more suggestions.

With the #MXP command, the proper syntax is:

#mxp {<relocate 172.20.4.101 23>}

Just always remember that CMUD is pickier than zMUD about having strings within quotes or {} braces. Remember that stuff on the command line uses Spaces to delimit the arguments. So in your case of:

#mxp <relocate 172.20.4.101 23>

it was passing "<relocate" as the first argument, then "172.20.4.101" as the second argument, and then "23>" as the third argument. And this causes CMUD to parse each argument separately as auto-type values. But enclosing the entire argument in " quote or {} braces, then you are telling CMUD to treat the entire argument as a single string value.

Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 10:55 pm

I found the problem with this. It was a really easy fix to handle IP addresses instead of treating them as floating-point values, so it is fixed for the next version.