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From: Chris Gray <cg@ami-cg.GraySage.COM>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 08:55:06 -0700
Organization: Kanga.Nu
From: Jon Leonard <jleonard@slimy.com>
> Are there any clients that aren't properly handled with those
> cases? If not, I'd agree with Lars Duening above, that a MUD
> should indeed support telnet properly, or at least something very
> close.
I think you are basically right. Its been a few years since I was
messing with my stuff, but the issues I recall were:
- echoing. This becomes important if you want to turn off echoing
of a password. Some clients (I thought the MS telnet was one) will
respond to a request to not echo (by agreeing to the server's
offer to echo), but will continue echoing anyway.
- line terminations. Some clients insist on putting out their own
extra termination characters. This can result in multi-spacing of
all output if you don't know they are doing it. This was sometimes
mixed in with control of echoing.
- prompts. Some clients try to do special things with
prompts. This always messed up with my server's code to do prompts
properly. But, my stuff worked fine with a proper Unix-based
telnet client, so I wasn't more than a bit annoyed by it. :-)
--
Experience should guide us, not rule us.
Chris Gray cg@ami-cg.GraySage.COM
http://www.GraySage.COM/cg/
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