New newcommods machinery for ignoring new commodities

[ypp-sc-tools.db-live.git] / pctb / README

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@@ -75,6 +75,24 @@ The program reads and writes the following files:
    it.  Don't try `display vid:#pages#.pnm' as this will consume
    truly stupendous quantities of RAM - it wedged my laptop.
 
+ * #master-newcommods#.txt #local-newcommods#.txt
+
+   Dictionary of newly introduced commodities.  When a new commodity
+   appears in Puzzle Pirates, the PCTB server operators need to add it
+   to their database for us to be able to upload data about it.
+
+   It can sometimes take a few days to do this.  In the meantime, it
+   is possible to upload partial data - data just omitting that
+   commodity.  This is controlled by these files: they list
+   commodities which should be automatically ignored if the PCTB
+   server doesn't know about them.  The master file is downloaded and
+   updated automatically from my server.  You may create the local
+   file yourself.  The format is simple: one commodity per line.
+
+   Unrecognised commodities can also be due to OCR failure so
+   double-check what you're doing before overriding the uploader by
+   telling it to ignore an unrecognised commodity.
+
  * #master-char*#.txt  #local-char*#.txt
    #master-pixmap#.txt #local-pixmap#.txt