[DGD]Telnet GOAHEAD

[Felix A. Croes]

Geir Harald Hansen <geirhans at ifi.uio.no> wrote:

>[...]
> Detecting windowsize like this is kinda nice.
> Anyway, with every prompt, I get:
> RCVD IAC GA
> > 
>
> If MudOS uses it, well.. there can't be that many non-telnet-compliant
> mudclients around? (Or they would complain very loudly, huh? ;)

They complained very loudly to me.  I think the majority of mud clients
has problems with at least some telnet escape sequences.


> Is DO TERMINAL TYPE something MudOS tells the client to make it
> use line-by-line mode? Shouldn't DGD also say this?
> (Sorry for my ignorance regarding the telnet protocol)

I'm not sure what DO TERMINAL TYPE does, but DGD uses SB DO LINEMODE.


> Btw, I found a 97-98 list archive on your experimental site.
> parse_string() looks nice, think I better switch to experimental. ;)
> I also like the new 'nil' thing very much.

Keep an eye out for upcoming changes. :)

Regards,
Dworkin

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