From: x@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [alt.mud.programming] Re: TCP?
Date: 4 May 1998 15:10:53 +0200

Subject: Re: TCP? 
From: pstolarc@infoworld.net.flonk.flonk.flonk (Somebody)
Newsgroups: alt.mud.programming

On 1 May 1998 06:53:41 GMT, jlsysinc@spammenot.ix.netcom.com (Jon A.
Lambert) had the audacity to write:

}On Fri, 01 May 1998 01:28:19 +0000, The Soulless Goat spaketh...
}>
}>I am extremely new to MUD programming. Heck, I've NEVER programmed a
MUD
}>before, but I was looking into it, and, I have heard from random
places
}>that you don't necessarily need a Telnet connection to be able to
use a
}>MUD. I have heard that it can be done using TCP?
}>
}>Could someone tell me if this is true, and if it is, how would I go
}>about doing it?
}>
}
}Yes.  Telnet is a protocol that is enveloped within TCP, at least
that's
}how it's commonly done on the internet.  Telnet can also run under
other 
}communication protocols.  What has been suggested to you is the
ability
}and option of using other protocols, either a standard or one of your
own 
}design, within the TCP protocol.  Typically this would also require
you 
}to develop and make available the client portion of your mud.  There
are
}both advantages and disadvantages to this.  Personally, I am using a 
}non-Telnet compatible protocol.  But I didn't start on this endeavor
without
}first investigationg the communication needs and level of
interactivity
}required by my application, the functional distribution of processes 
}between server and client, the requirements and capabilities of the
client 
}platform(s), and the preferred format and content of that data.  Only
then 
}did I choose my implementation.  It happened not to be Telnet.  YMMV.
}

I can see it now.  A MUD via FTP...

rm orc
**Access Denied**
mv sword orc
**Orc takes 10 points of damage**
mv sword orc
**Orc takes 7 points of damage**
rm orc
**Orc deleted**
cd north
**You move north**