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Kevin Bracey wrote:
>
> What you need to do is look through verblibm and replace the three occurences
> of ".describe~=NULL" with ".&describe~=0"
>
> I think that should cure it without any ill effects (touch wood).
>

Bless you. I've been poring over my code and NPC_Engine's trying to
figure it out, instead of thinking it might be the library.

I guess it's not that odd that describe would be additive, in case one
wants to have a general class description, then a specific object
description, but I never thought it worked that way... always thought
one just replaced the inherited describe. Of course, a quick look at the
DM shows it marked as such, so shame on me.

Anyway, thanks a bunch for helping me figure it out.

Chip

P.S. Isn't there a page somewhere with suggested patches for future
libraries? I seem to remember one. Was it Roger Firth's?
