[99] in Coldmud discussion meeting
Re: ANSI codes and unreadables
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sat Dec 4 17:18:46 1993
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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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