Info files

[Pete]

I've tried Googling and searching but haven't found any answer to this.

How do I make a info file? I mean, for use through !info.
I guess it should be called 'info', but what extension, and where should it be placed?

My server is on Linux, FYI.

[Caveman]

What is !info?
maybe contact the author of that server-side patch, or read the source?

[benmachine]

!info is mine, and poorly documented I'll admit.
In your base folder, create a new folder called info.
Create a new text file in that folder called info-default.txt, this will get printed when someone uses !info with no arguments.
You can also create other files, like info-rules.txt or info-maps.txt, which will be printed when someone does !info rules or !info maps, for example.
There's other neat stuff you can do, but it's kinda complicated so I won't get into it here. If/when I finish writing my docs, I'll edit in a link.

[Pete]

!info is mine, and poorly documented I'll admit.
In your base folder, create a new folder called info.
Create a new text file in that folder called info-default.txt, this will get printed when someone uses !info with no arguments.
You can also create other files, like info-rules.txt or info-maps.txt, which will be printed when someone does !info rules or !info maps, for example.
There's other neat stuff you can do, but it's kinda complicated so I won't get into it here. If/when I finish writing my docs, I'll edit in a link.

Ok, thanks 

[master@sparta]

thanks ben i have been trying to figure that out for ever nice too know

[jake]

i am currently trying to create an info file, however it has glitched and the only way to see !info is to use rcon

doing !info without rcon nothing happens at all.

[David]

Do the people trying have whatever admin flag it needs?

[cactusfrog]

thanks ben i have been trying to figure that out for ever nice too know

same thanks

[jake]

It turns out that you can only have a very very small .txt file. anything bigger than maybe 100 words doesnt work, anyone know how to make bigger ones work?

[mooseberry]

Summarize?

[Thorn]

I remember someone saying it was limited to 1024 charactors ( or some number around there )...

[gimhael]

The code in G_admin_info truncates the message at 1023 bytes and then sends a print "message" to the client. I wouldn't increase this limit as this could have all sorts of nasty side effects, but it should be possible to split a longer message into 1023 character chunks and send multiple print commands.

[David]

However how is the client going to read it?  The people who need !info are probably the same group who don't get how to scroll the console etc.  Or maybe don't even know there is a console...

Do it in pages.

[Caveman]

Why not just blast those poor guys/girls with !tellplayer <url> until they get your point?

[benmachine]

The limit is intentional to make handling the data easier.

src/qcommon/q_shared.h:

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// the game guarantees that no string from the network will ever
// exceed MAX_STRING_CHARS
#define MAX_STRING_CHARS        1024    // max length of a string passed to Cmd_TokenizeString