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- From: guddt@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (David Bennett)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.misc,rec.games.mud.lp
- Subject: Re: Client/server protocol for LP prompts
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 12:01:27 +0800
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- mausf@csv.warwick.ac.uk (S J Marsh) writes:
-
- >>Personaly I would do it through the terminal type negotiation bit of
- >>telnet. Set the terminal type to 'mud-client' or something. I got
- >>whelk to set the term type to whelk... (For this reason) But I am
- >>willing to change to make a standard. Please don't make a sleaze a
- >>standard. That happens too much :(
-
- >NONONONONONONOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo...........
-
- >This must be a big NO NO. What if I want to use my client to connect
- >to a non-mud server which then goes and demands my terminal type ?
- >Also, its possible future muds may need to know term types (think
- >about a mud that could check if you have an xterm, and if so sends
- >controls to set the title bar and such, there are huge possabilites
- >here).
-
- Have you read the rfc on telnet term types? It doesn't just send 1
- type... In fact you send a whole bunch of them if you like.
-
- This does not exclude it from also pretending to be whatever type
- of terminal you want it to. It is transperant...
-
- David.
- [DDT] Pink fish forever.
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- David Bennett, guddt@uniwa.uwa.oz.au | University Computer Club
- Where Pink fish swim backwards. | c/o Guild of Undergraduates
- These words I am singing now mean nothing more than meow to an animal - TMBG
- Disclaimer: Any spelling mistakes in this article are all entirly my fault. Any grammer errors spotted in this article were put there because I could.
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