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Vadim Pokotilov <vpoko AT earthlink DOT net> wrote in article
<77jsgj$9hk$1 AT holly DOT prod DOT itd DOT earthlink DOT net>...
> Actually, I had the same problem when I tried to make my SUD (single, as
> opposed to multi, as in MUD). I ended up just making my own input routine
> using a looped getch();. Worked much better. When the user typed in a
space
> it automatically incerented the index (it is defined as char* input[2]).
Of
> course, getting any kind of natural language parsing (A la Zork) is very,
> very hard to do.

It is??  I have never had any problem looking at it like a true mud does
and the code isn't that hard to duplicate on a single user version.  I
wouldn't need to do what you suggested.  I guess I would use a stack and
parse the sentence form a raw string, not worrying about reading each char
independently, since you need to worry about all the arguments of the
entire statement at once.