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Watchfor says my friend is online, but my friend isn't online. WTF?

Like the page command, watchfor suffers from a string-matching problem. If you have 'Don' on watchfor, he will show up if 'Donkey' or 'Donald' or 'Donnie' logs in. Conversely, if you have 'BigBlackDog' on your watchfor, and plain old 'Big' logs in, it will appear as though 'BigBlackDog' is online. We don't have a fix for it. We can only suggest that you use 'WHO ' to double-check if you're having any trouble along these lines. You can also supplement your watchfor with 'pwho' (see 'pwho #help') which matches via dbref rather than name, and so is never confused. Just ask a friendly neighborhood helpstaffer for assistance.

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