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From: Shawn Halpenny <malachai@iname.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 12:12:48 -0400
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
Adam Wiggins wrote:
> > [Chris G.?]
> > [telnet]
> >
> > Nothing much there by default, huh? I guess I should forget about it
> > then. I just sort of assumed that your run-of-the mill 'telnet' program
> > would support the full set of telnet options!
>
> *thinks hard* As I recall from when I was fooling around with writing a
> 'normal' text mud client, telnet is just a byte stream with ocassional
> telnet codes which do something, although I'm not sure what. It's a 0xff
> character followed by two bytes of code data; all I did was ignore it.
> As I recall very few of these are defined for stock telnet anyhow, I think
> it was designed to be some sort of expansion thing which never got used,
> or at least by anything interesting.
Slightly off topic, but also perhaps slightly related, there is a socket
implementation that does most of the extra telnet negotiation stuff:
NetServe -- http://www.dtc.rankxerox.co.uk/~robin/netserve.html
I've intentions of using it when I finally get down to coding. It seems
quite clear and complete, and having it do all the telnet stuff gives a few
added perks. I think it also does user ident too, FWIW.
--
Shawn Halpenny
"Don't force it--get a bigger hammer."
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