[Nottingham] Telnet with 'comfort shell' features for talkinjg to dumb server control programs

[Philip Scott]

Oddly enough, your answer may lie in looking for a 'MUD' 
(Multi-User-Dungeon/Deathmatch) client for whatever platform you're using - 
mcl is a good command line one, try kmuddy for a kde-based one. These have 
all the features you requested, as they are designed to make playing on 
telnet-based internet games a pleasurable experience. You'll have to pipe it 
through ssh somehow, but that is certainly possible :)

Regards,
 Philip

On Saturday 15 February 2003 10:07 am, Robert Davies wrote:
> I'm having to use ssh more onto a server in the net and then talk to
> various client daemons over telnet.  It's not repetitive enough to automate
> using except(1), but the lack of up-arrow and history features are driving
> me barmy.
>
> Surely someone has had this problem before?  There must be a 'pseudo-shell'
> which does history and file completion, but punts all the commands on to
> the tcp/ip server process you are talking to?  This would even be useful
> for manual checking on webservers, and fixing mailer daemons, where you can
> reload a configuration on the flie and don't have access to GUI
> environment.
>
> Rob
>
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