1.8.3p11

Version 1.8.3 patchlevel 11 -- Jan 01, 2010

The WHO, DOING and SESSION commands are now normal game commands, and can be @hook'd, typed in lower-case, etc. (The WHO at the login screen is separate.) If you have a softcoded 'who' command, you will need to @hook/override WHO for it to continue working.
The "take" command has been moved from the hardcode into alias.cnf. If you want to keep it as an alias for "get", you should add the line "command_alias get take" into your alias.cnf.

The *_file options (connect_file, motd_file, etc) can now be a #dbref/attribute instead of a filename, in which case the given attribute is evaluated and the result shown in place of the text file.

@decompile now takes multiple attribute patterns after the / (@dec obj/attr attr2)
@channel/decompile now shows the dbref of the channel mogrifier, instead of its name.
@pemit now takes a /port switch, which sends the message to the specified port.
@hook/list without a <command> now shows all commands which have hooks.
@search now takes multiple <class>=<restriction> pairs.
The IDLE command now takes an optional argument, which it prints back to the descriptor which sent the command.
IDLE no longer increases the cmds() for a descriptor.

die() now takes up to 700 dice.
remove() will now remove a list of words.
table() now supports <, > and - as alignment parameters to field width.
testlock(<boolexp>, <victim>) tests a lock without setting it.
lnum() now takes a fourth argument: A step.
cwho() now takes an optional second argument, to control whether online, offline or all players are returned.
room(<room>) now returns <room>, instead of #-1. Also, room(<exit>) returns the exit's source room, rather than the destination.
Fixed a bug in how align() strips spaces when wrapping text.
pemit(<port number>, <message>) sends <message> to the specified port, like @pemit/port.
lports() and lwho() take an optional second argument to include connections at the login screen.
namelist() now takes an optional #dbref/attr, called for each invalid name in the first argument.
lmath() can now do lt, lte, gt, gte, eq and neq. Also, lt(), lte(), etc, can all take more than 2 arguments.
Anyone can now use ctime() on any object.
locks() reported built-in locks as being user: locks.

Help fixes by various folks.
lsearch() with invalid syntax was failing to report it as such, causing confusion when lsearch(me,exits) returned the same as lsearch(me).
fun_merge() was eating characters when ansi was present.
Windows compile fixes.
Math-y crashbug fixed.
page/port didn't evaluate its arguments properly.
randword() with a single element list wasn't dealing correctly with extra spaces.
@listen/^-listens should now be triggered with the object being spoofed as %#, not the object doing the spoofing, when @message/spoof (and @pemit/spoof, etc) are used.
Fixed some minor type-related warnings when compiling on cygwin.
@functions which were set "localize" would report being set "Userfn" as well, and functions set "Userfn" weren't reported as such.
Objects could be set with flags which weren't valid for their object type, if such flags were in the <type>_flags config option.
Crashbug in the command parser fixed.
Added some missing punctuation in channel messages.

@listen/^-listens now carry over ANSI. Requested by Mercutio.
@adisconnect now has %5, which is true if the disconnecting descriptor was @hide.
@pemit <name>= would show nospoof info if <name> was set Nospoof. Now, it does nothing at all.
The connect screen can now contain ANSI color.
Small bug fix in @search.
Built-in functions can be set FN_LOCALIZE to preserve %q-regs.
Refactoring of ufun(), ulocal(), u[l]default() and ulambda().
The "Not enough money to queue command" message tells you which object was attempting to queue the command.

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