[1051] in Coldmud discussion meeting

root meeting help first first in chain previous in chain previous next last

Re: [COLD] ~non_terminated...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sat Jul 27 18:15:40 1996 )

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