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Re: ANSI codes and unreadables

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sat Dec 4 17:18:46 1993 )

To: jsp@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Jeff Prothero)
Cc: coldstuff@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 04 Dec 1993 13:35:42 PST."
             <9312042135.AA00625@glia.biostr.washington.edu> 
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1993 13:52:56 -0800
From: Ian McCloghrie <imcclogh@cs.ucsd.edu>

> Richelieu: 
> | The MUD should _not_ allow non-glyph non-space characters in its input.  
> 
> More precisely, muds should default to cooked mode for network I/O,
> users should have to explicitly select raw 8-bit I/O if they want it.

	Point.  IMHO, the mud should not allow a random user to send a
random non-printable string to a random other user.  The simplest way
of doing this is to not allowing sending them at all, sufficient for
TinyMUD, insufficient for something more general like ColdMUD.

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