[DGD]ANSI on the Melville mudlib

[Chris Kaczor]

Well - it definitely isn't the most inventive change - but I'd argue it is
one of the core requirements for a new mud nowadays.  A mud without some
color support is likely to be shunned.  =)

But take heart - in one case someone already did what you mentioned - I
found the ANSI spec and added everything myself.  =)

Zor

-----Original Message-----
From: dgd-admin at list.imaginary.com
[mailto:dgd-admin at list.imaginary.com]On Behalf Of E. Harte
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 6:31 PM
To: dgd at list.imaginary.com
Subject: Re: [DGD]ANSI on the Melville mudlib


On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Imo Wright wrote:

> Hi to fellow DGD users.
> I was wondering if anyone out there had any information on
programming/using
> ANSI color on the Melville mudlib, and how it might be achieved.  If the
lib
> already has ANSI, then it's my bad, but if it doesn't, I have a feeling it
> might need some code I don't quite grasp yet to get it working :).

If this is asked here one more time I'm going to kick someone.  Can ANSI
colours just roll over and die, please?  I mean, if that's the most
adventurous, inventive change you're planning for your mud, geez, give me
a break and find a new hobby. *grumble*

The only prefab solution I can think of is this one:

  ftp://ftp.imaginary.com/pub/LPC/servers/DGD/pkg/ansi-1.1.tar.gz

No idea if it's still appropriate for current stable versions or the
experimental branch, though, you're on your own there.

If that fails, go find what ANSI colours mean (a headache from looking at
them for me, usually, because people tend to pick colours that completely
clash with my preferred foreground and background settings), and realize
that the only thing that you need to change in DGD is the filtering out of
control-characters, the rest can all be done in LPC.  Shouldn't be too
hard to figure out how to do that, if you have even the slightest bit of C
knowledge.

Good luck.

HTH HAND,

Erwin.
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