[1051] in Coldmud discussion meeting
Re: [COLD] ~non_terminated...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sat Jul 27 18:15:40 1996
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From: Jay Carlson <nop@nop.com>
To: Andrew Wilson <andrew@aaaaaaaa.demon.co.uk>
cc: coldstuff@cold.org
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 27 Jul 96 18:55:23 BST."
<199607271755.SAA02649@aaaaaaaa.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 96 18:02:10 -0400
> Oh, and another thing...
> The ~non_terminated behaviour is there to make output to telnet
> clients look neat:
>
> Please enter yes or no [yes]: no
>
> ^ server output.............. ^ user input
>
> Which is kind of pointless if you're not using telnet, but are
> instead using a 'split screen' client which separates input from
> output.
Right, which brings up issues of exactly what your target audience is.
Most of the MOO high-tech people, for example, use clients that assume
that the server speaks newline separated records. In fact, at least
two clients I know of will lock up hard if they get partial lines in
violation of this protocol.
You guys really need to negotiate for this kind of thing.
> Mmm.
mmm, underdocumented assumptions.
Jay Carlson
nop@nop.com nop@ccs.neu.edu nop@kagoona.mitre.org
Flat text is just *never* what you want. ---stephen p spackman