[1049] in Coldmud discussion meeting

[COLD] .write("foo", 'non_terminated) and a certain client...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sat Jul 27 15:04:29 1996 )

From: Andrew Wilson <andrew@aaaaaaaa.demon.co.uk>
To: coldstuff@cold.org
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 18:50:56 +0100 (BST)

There are some methods in ColdCore-3.0-ALPHA2 which could cause
problems for clients which operate in 'line mode'.  .write("something",
'non_terminated) has the effect of flushing a string to the connection
without terminating it with a CR.  tkMOO-light (yawn) is currently
geared up to cope with 'gets' reads, that is, it expects information
to appear in lines terminated with CR.

Issuing the @shutdown command causes a prompt:

    Do you really want to? [yes]:

or some similar string which only appears *after* the bemused user
has typed [return] to free up what appears to be a hanged connection.

So, this isn't a bug report, just a note that -light gets screwed
by the current core.  I may find time to explore turning my well
formed gets's into really hairy read's, possibly before hell cools
a little.

Oh well.

Ay.