diff -u MOO-1.8.1.dbopt/db_save_lambda_flush.c ../live/gammamoo/db_save_lambda_flush.c
--- MOO-1.8.1.dbopt/db_save_lambda_flush.c	2004-02-25 23:11:30.503303312 +0000
+++ ../live/gammamoo/db_save_lambda_flush.c	2004-02-25 07:28:29.000000000 +0000
@@ -105,7 +105,34 @@
 void
 dbio_write_string(const char *s)
 {
-    dbio_printf("%s\n", s ? s : "");
+	int pos;
+	
+	/* Handle null strings */
+	if (!s) {
+		fputc('\n', output);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	/* Iterate over each character, printing to the file and Escaping as nessecary. */
+	for (pos = 0; s[pos]; pos++)
+	{
+		switch (s[pos])
+		{
+			case '\n':
+				fputc('\0', output);
+				fputc('n', output);
+				break;
+			case '\r':
+				fputc('\0', output);
+				fputc('r', output);
+				break;
+			default:
+				fputc(s[pos], output);
+		}
+	}
+	fputc('\n', output);
+	
+    /* dbio_printf("%s\n", s ? s : ""); */
 }
 
 void
diff -u MOO-1.8.1.dbopt/db_save_lambda_load.c ../live/gammamoo/db_save_lambda_load.c
--- MOO-1.8.1.dbopt/db_save_lambda_load.c	2004-02-25 23:11:30.529299360 +0000
+++ ../live/gammamoo/db_save_lambda_load.c	2004-02-25 07:28:29.000000000 +0000
@@ -63,11 +63,67 @@
     input = f;
 }
 
+/* This function is used for reading string data from the database
+* Anything that is stored as a string in the database has a special format.
+* so that \n can be used in strings, in the file,  \n will be replaced
+* with the two-character identifier "\0n"  The string representation in
+* memory will remain unchanged (normal string thingie)
+*
+* Therefore, you can't use fgets here, and we must implement it ourselves
+*/
+
+int
+dbio_read_line(char *s, int n)
+{
+	int pos, c;
+	const char *ptr;
+	for (pos = 0; pos < (n - 1); pos++)
+	{
+		c = fgetc(input);  /* read next char from file */
+		switch (c)
+		{
+		case '\n':
+			/* We have reached the end of the record, add the \0 and return */
+			s[pos] = '\n';
+			s[pos+1] = '\0';
+			return 0;
+			break;
+		case EOF:
+			if (!pos) return -1;
+			s[pos] = '\0';
+			return 0;
+			break;
+		case '\0':
+			/* Handle the special lil escaping thing */
+			c = fgetc(input);
+			switch (c)
+			{
+			case 'n':
+				s[pos] = '\n';
+				break;
+			case 'r':
+				s[pos] = '\r';
+				break;
+			default:
+				errlog("DBIO_READ_LINE: Unknown escape character in string at file pos. %ld\n",
+					ftell(input));
+				return -1;
+			}
+			break;
+		default:
+			s[pos] = c;
+		}
+	}
+	return 1;
+}
+/*
 void
 dbio_read_line(char *s, int n)
 {
     fgets(s, n, input);
 }
+*/
+
 
 int
 dbio_scanf(const char *format,...)
@@ -183,7 +239,7 @@
 {
     static Stream *str = 0;
     static char buffer[1024];
-    int len, used_stream = 0;
+    int len,status=0,used_stream = 0;
 
 	prior_to_read_string = ftell(input);
 	
@@ -191,9 +247,9 @@
 	str = new_stream(1024);
 
   try_again:
-    fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), input);
+    status = dbio_read_line(buffer, sizeof(buffer));
     len = strlen(buffer);
-    if (len == sizeof(buffer) - 1 && buffer[len - 1] != '\n') {
+    if (len == sizeof(buffer) - 1 && status > 0) {
 	stream_add_string(str, buffer);
 	used_stream = 1;
 	goto try_again;