We still need to get the latest spells_us.txt and eqstr_us.txt?

[jesterbam]

I have noticed in the last couple "News" posts related to new versions the EXPLICT statement that SEQ requires these files has been missing.

I still go and grab the lastest and new ones and put them in my /usr/local/share/showeq folder out of habit but are they still required?

Sorry if I missed the message "they are no longer needed on the SEQ box".

[uRit1u2CBBA=]

I checked the messages in the terminal after loading SEQ, and both files are being read in.

I have 6290 spells and 11521 message strings being read in from files.

[jesterbam]

Yep I get the same message so we must still need them.

[Cryonic]

You never had to have those files, they just help SEQ in regards to spell buffing and preformatted string messages. If you start SEQ without them, it will run and will work without any crashing....

[quackrabbit]

While they are not required, SEQ does have some difficulty if you don't have current ones.

[uRit1u2CBBA=]

Since it's been a while since I've seen it posted, this is the shell script that I run when I want to download the latest versions of the files directly from that patcher:


#!/bin/bash

USERAGENT="Sony Patcher"

wget --user-agent="$USERAGENT" http://patch.everquest.com:7000/patch/everquest/main/spells_us.txt.gz
gunzip spells_us.txt
cp /usr/local/share/showeq/spells_us.txt /usr/local/share/showeq/spells_us.txt.old
mv spells_us.txt /usr/local/share/showeq/spells_us.txt

wget --user-agent="$USERAGENT" http://patch.everquest.com:7000/patch/everquest/main/eqstr_us.txt.gz
gunzip eqstr_us.txt
cp /usr/local/share/showeq/eqstr_us.txt /usr/local/share/showeq/eqstr_us.txt.old
mv eqstr_us.txt /usr/local/share/showeq/eqstr_us.txt

[tanner]

The showeq-contrib debian package has a debconf wrapper around a bash script for downloading these files as well.

See this post for details.
http://www.showeq.net/forums/showpost.php?p=37132&postcount=1

I've been looking for feedback on the script from non-debian platforms, but haven't received any :-)