[MUD-Dev] remote 56K editing, especially for lpmud?

[Lars Duening]

Brandon J. Van Every wrote:

> I found a project.  I am now a wizard on a lpmud.  I have a
> /homedirectory and I can type ls, mv, rm commands from within the
> mud.  Editors are available within the mud, but the character echo
> is too slow over my 56K modem connection to be usable.  My work is
> going to consist mainly of creating foo.c files in /homedirectory.

There is of course the built-in 'ed' line editor, which should at
least solve the slow character echo problem.

ed's append mode can be used to upload files simply by copy&pasting
your local copy into the telnet terminal window. Downloading is more
tricky, as you'd have to run the telnet session from within script,
print the file from within the mud (again using ed), and afterwards
extract the file data from the 'typescript' file.

> The mud owners are not willing to give wizards system shell
> accounts or system FTP access.  They feel, rightly or wrongly,
> that they are more secure if they don't.

They're right.

> Apparently there's some kind of in-mud FTP capability, but it's
> currently broken and they say it's too much hassle to do anything
> about it.

They're also lazy.

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