Re: Resets and repops

[claw#null,net]

On 24/03/97 at 10:08 PM, Adam Wiggins <nightfall#inficad,com> said:
>...I've found myself
>mudding from literally dozens of sites over the years, often hopping
>back and forth...fooling with a client would have put me off from a
>mud unless it was totally killer.

An old refrain for me, but I really dislike most clients. 
Specifically I dislike the idea of using the client to automate
playing the game.  I feel strongly that any game which both can be so
automted, or for which players benefit (!) by such automation is
seriously flawed.

Then again, my preferred client is raw telnet.

>Um...actually telnet can't do much of anything, that I've seen.  

Pretty much, yeah.  It does however have one of the most baroque
protocols I can think of.

>At any rate I've found that the vt-100 codes are pretty darn
>powerful.  

Hehn.  Drive it with curses (you don't have to use the windowing
stuff) and you can do damn near anything on any terminal you have a
termcap for.  Remember: Curses (well, decent implementations, and I've
seen some doozies) was originally optimised for running across slow
serial lines.

>I only use the windowing and cursor movement stuff, as well
>as line clearing (extremelly nice to be able to clear a given portion
>of the screen in one command).

Did a full screen editor with drop down menus, scrollable command
histories, block editing etc under CURSES once.  Ran fine over 9600
dialups.

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