Asdcarl.287
net.games.emp
utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!sdcarl!rusty
Fri Apr 30 18:21:51 1982
mkemp.c
Here is a simple little program I wrote for creating an
empire world. The purpose of it is so that if the person
that sets up the game is also playing the game they won't
know who represents which country. It reads a list of user
names on stdin, one per line, and writes the necessary
"add country" commands on stdout. Sample usage might be

	% mkemp < list > cmds
	% empire POGO peter
	[##:##] Command : execute cmds
	[##:##] Command : ^D
	% rm cmds

It sets up each user with a country named "countryN" where
"N" is some number and sends them a message telling them
which country they represent.

===========> mkemp.c <============

# include <stdio.h>

# define rani(min, max)	(rand() % ((max) - (min)) + (min))

char **nams;
int nnams;

main() {
	getnams();
	mixnams();
# ifdef debug
	pnams();
# endif debug
	mkemps();
}

mkemps() {
	extern FILE *popen();
	register FILE *mfd;
	register int i;
	char buf[BUFSIZ];

	for (i = 0; i < nnams; i++) {
		printf("add country\n");
		printf("%d\n", i+1);
		printf("country%d\n", i+1);
		printf("%s\n", nams[i]);
		printf("new\n");

		sprintf(buf, "mail %s", nams[i]);

# ifdef debug
		mfd = stdout;
# else debug
		if ((mfd = popen(buf, "w")) == NULL) {
			perror("popen");
			exit(1);
		}
# endif debug

		fprintf(mfd, "A new empire game has been started.\n");
		fprintf(mfd, "You represent \"country%d\".\n", i+1);
		fprintf(mfd, "Destroy this message (use the \"d\" command\n");
		fprintf(mfd, "to the mail program) after you have read it.\n");

# ifndef debug
		if (pclose(mfd) != 0) {
			fprintf(stderr, "mail error\n");
			exit(1);
		}
# endif debug
	}
}

# ifdef debug
pnams() {
	register int i;

	for (i = 0; i < nnams; i++)
		printf("%s\n", nams[i]);
}
# endif debug

mixnams() {
	extern long time();
	register char *cp;
	register int i;
	int pos;

	srand(0xffff & time(0));

	for (i = 0; i < nnams; i++) {
		pos = rani(0, nnams);
		cp = nams[i];
		nams[i] = nams[pos];
		nams[pos] = cp;
	}
}

getnams() {
	extern char *realloc();
	extern char *malloc();
	char buf[BUFSIZ];

	if ((nams = (char **) malloc(sizeof(char *))) == NULL) {
		perror("malloc");
		exit(1);
	}

	nnams = 0;

	while (fgets(buf, BUFSIZ, stdin) != NULL) {
		buf[strlen(buf)-1] = NULL;	/* zap newline */

		nnams++;
		if ((nams = (char **) realloc((char *) nams, sizeof(char *) * nnams)) == NULL) {
			perror("realloc");
			exit(1);
		}
		if ((nams[nnams-1] = malloc(strlen(buf)+1)) == NULL) {
			perror("malloc");
			exit(1);
		}

		strcpy(nams[nnams-1], buf);
	}
}