[MUD-Dev] Re: mud client development systems

[Per Vognsen]

Sunny Gulati wrote:

[snip]

> On the various people who are.. umm.. puzzled at my insistance on running
> this over a telnet session.. I took a close look at my motivation, and this
> is what I found:
> 
> 1. I'm not an awesome C hacker.  Playing around with a driver, dealing with
> binary streams coming straight from a socket, scares me.   Especially when I
> don't have a crystal clear idea of my communications protocols.

You said you were using LPC, right? Well, here's a useable solution to
your
problem (I think, at least :); use socket-efuns. I think they're
described in the
doc/concepts/socket-efuns file in the MudOS distribution. After reading
it,
they rest should be pretty obvious. If not, mail me.

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Per Vognsen (Phaerus)                 Head-Programmer of Ashandar.
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