--- deliantra/server/common/compat.C	2010/03/26 00:59:20	1.5
+++ deliantra/server/common/compat.C	2010/04/15 22:11:47	1.9
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * This file is part of Deliantra, the Roguelike Realtime MMORPG.
  * 
- * Copyright (©) 2005,2006,2007,2008,2009 Marc Alexander Lehmann / Robin Redeker / the Deliantra team
+ * Copyright (©) 2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010 Marc Alexander Lehmann / Robin Redeker / the Deliantra team
  * Copyright (©) 2002 Mark Wedel & Crossfire Development Team
  * Copyright (©) 1992 Frank Tore Johansen
  * 
@@ -59,22 +59,16 @@
 
 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
-static const char *const fatalmsgs[80] = {
-  "Failed to allocate memory",
-  "Failed repeatedly to load maps",
-  "Hashtable for archetypes is too small",
-  "Too many errors"
-};
-
 /*
  * fatal() is meant to be called whenever a fatal signal is intercepted.
  * It will call the emergency_save and the clean_tmp_files functions.
  */
+//TODO: only one caller left
 void
-fatal (int err)
+fatal (const char *msg)
 {
-  LOG (llevError, "Fatal: %s\n", fatalmsgs [err]);
-  cleanup (fatalmsgs[err], 1);
+  LOG (llevError, "FATAL: %s\n", msg);
+  cleanup (msg, 1);
 }
 
 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@@ -316,67 +310,12 @@
   return (path);
 }
 
-/**
- * open_and_uncompress() first searches for the original filename. If it exist,
- * then it opens it and returns the file-pointer.
- */
-FILE *
-open_and_uncompress (const char *name, int flag, int *compressed)
-{
-  *compressed = 0;
-  return fopen (name, "r");
-}
-
-/*
- * See open_and_uncompress().
- */
-
-void
-close_and_delete (FILE * fp, int compressed)
-{
-  fclose (fp);
-}
-
-/*
- * Strip out the media tags from a String.
- * Warning the input string will contain the result string
- */
-void
-strip_media_tag (char *message)
-{
-  int in_tag = 0;
-  char *dest;
-  char *src;
-
-  src = dest = message;
-  while (*src != '\0')
-    {
-      if (*src == '[')
-        {
-          in_tag = 1;
-        }
-      else if (in_tag && (*src == ']'))
-        in_tag = 0;
-      else if (!in_tag)
-        {
-          *dest = *src;
-          dest++;
-        }
-      src++;
-    }
-  *dest = '\0';
-}
-
 #define EOL_SIZE (sizeof("\n")-1)
 void
 strip_endline (char *buf)
 {
-  if (strlen (buf) < sizeof ("\n"))
-    {
-      return;
-    }
-  if (!strcmp (buf + strlen (buf) - EOL_SIZE, "\n"))
-    buf[strlen (buf) - EOL_SIZE] = '\0';
+  if (*buf && buf [strlen (buf) - 1] == '\n')
+    buf [strlen (buf) - 1] = '\0';
 }
 
 /**