-Files we use and update
------------------------
-
-The program reads and writes the following files:
-
- * #pages#.pnm
-
- Contains one or more images (as raw ppms, end-to-end) which are the
- screenshots taken in the last run. This is (over)written whenever
- we take screenshots from the YPP client. You can reprocess an
- existing set of screenshots with the --same (aka --analyse-only)
- option; in that case we just read the screenshots file.
-
- You can specify a different file with --screenshot-file.
-
- If you want to display the contents of this file, `display' can do
- 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
-
- Character set and image dictionaries. For the semantics of the
- char* files README.charset. There is not currently any accurate
- documentation of this dictionary format.
-
- #master-*#.txt contain the centrally defined and approved data.
- They are downloaded automatically from the SC PCTB server and
- updated each run. You can safely delete this file, if everything
- is online, if you want to fetch a fresh copy.
-
- #local-*#.txt are a local copy of your submissions, so that they
- will be used by your client pending approval by me. You can delete
- this file if you think you may have made a mistake.
-
- See README.privacy for details of the communications with the SC
- server about the contents of these dictionaries.
-
- * #commodmap#.tsv
-
- Map from commodity names to the numbers required by the PCTB
- server. This is fetched and updated automatically as necessary.
- It can safely be deleted as it will then be refetched.
-
- * #upload-1#.html #upload-2#.html
-
- We screenscrape the pages from the PCTB upload server. The actual
- HTML returned from the upload server is left in these dropping
- files for debugging etc.
-
- * <file>.new
-
- When any of these tools overwrite one of the persistent dictionary
- files, they temporarily write to <file>.new.
-
-These files are all in the current working directory. There is not
-yet any feature to have them be somewhere else. The helper programs
- dictionary-manager
- commod-results-processor
-must (currently) also be in the current directory.
-
-Future versions may have more helpers and more data files.
-
-
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