more dict entries, better comments, fix cart docs

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/messages.pl b/messages.pl
index 0d68f4d..1120a8b 100644
--- a/messages.pl
+++ b/messages.pl
@@ -2,7 +2,11 @@
 
 # compresses messages for taipan.c.
 # messages are listed at the end of this file after __END__ marker.
+# Run with no arguments to encode all messages, in which case the
 # output of this script should be redirected to messages.c.
+# With an argument, encoding is not done: instead, the strings
+# to be encoded are dumped to stdout, *after* dictionary
+# substitution is done.
 
 # make dictionary from textdecomp.s comments
 open my $t, "<textdecomp.s" or die $!;
@@ -35,7 +39,7 @@ while(<DATA>) {
 	s/^\w+\s+//;
 
 	my $orig = $_;
-	#warn "msg: $_\n";
+	print " input: $_\n" if @ARGV;
 	s/"//g;
 	s/\\r//g;
 	s/\\n/\n/g;
@@ -49,9 +53,12 @@ while(<DATA>) {
 		}
 	}
 
-	my $w = $_;
-	$w =~ s/\n/\\n/g;
-	#warn "got: \"$w\"\n";
+	if(@ARGV) {
+		my $w = $_;
+		$w =~ s/\n/\\n/g;
+		print "output: \"$w\"\n\n";
+		next;
+	}
 	open my $out, ">msg.out" or die $!;
 	print $out $_;
 	close $out;
@@ -69,6 +76,8 @@ while(<DATA>) {
 	print "\n};" . ($dict_used ? " // dictionary used" : "") . "\n\n";
 }
 
+exit 0 if @ARGV;
+
 print "// messages:          $msgcount\n";
 print "// total input size:  $total_in\n";
 print "// total output size: $total_out\n";