The original idea for loading was to run through the file and generate a linked list of entities. Each entity would store the map name, how many times it was beaten, etc. Then I could cycle through the linked list to print out the map list to screen, or to find the map I wanted. This system sounds really good to me because it helps keep the map file organized (when the map list is saved again I can just traverse the linked list, which was sorted already).
However, the snag is Quake's string system. It doesn't actually copy strings around, it just makes a const for all the strings mentioned in the code, and temporarily stores the rest of the strings in buffers that will be soon overwritten. So, if I say:
ent.netname = temp; // copy name into entity
all the ents will end up with the same name, because temp is pointing to the fgets buffer instead of a separate string, and the next call to fgets will change that buffer.
In other words, unless DP supports a whole lot of temp strings, I won't be able to do it this way.
