X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~yarrgweb/git?p=ypp-sc-tools.db-live.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=pctb%2FREADME;h=49f2c28e006375d8ddd7d6c86867c3e458af5af0;hp=e9f4f097b06adb1e6fe73a9c4a5a5b34766170a7;hb=bf23ebca674a0a7a53b1a9bfc7121a38fb8216b9;hpb=a16d3db1d044e2eb62e4d6f4d1db9f2c6fc0713e;ds=sidebyside

diff --git a/pctb/README b/pctb/README
index e9f4f09..49f2c28 100644
--- a/pctb/README
+++ b/pctb/README
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Overview
 This tool can:
   - screenscrape the commodities trading screen
   - produce the results as a tab separated values file
-  - **TODO** upload the results to PCTB
+  - upload the results to PCTB
 
 To run it, change to this directory, type `make', and then:
   ./ypp-commodities --tsv >commods.tsv
@@ -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