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

Robert Davies nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Sat Feb 15 20:51:01 2003


On Sunday 16 February 2003 03:19, you wrote:
> 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 :)

What I really really like about this answer, is that it's a brilliant reason 
to install MUD clients on 'sysadmin' machines *evil grin*

Hmmm didn't Alan Cox start out doing MUD?

Rob