ghudson@cie.uoregon.edu (Greg Hudson) (10/01/90)
Archive-name: tinyfugue/26-Sep-90 Original-posting-by: ghudson@cie.uoregon.edu (Greg Hudson) Original-subject: Re: What/where is the newest version of TinyTalk? Archive-site: belch.berkeley.edu [128.32.152.202] Archive-directory: /pub/mud_misc Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Mark "Crimson" Friedman <friedman@cis.ohio-state.edu>, <84089@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>: :If I must repeat: : What/where is the newest version of TinyTalk? : : - Mark "Crimson" Friedman TinyFugue 1.1.4 is, again, available at belch.berkeley.edu, pub/mud_misc, and at valkyrie.ecn.uoknor.edu, via anonymous ftp. Known bugs: The distribution archive contains two helpfiles. They're both the same except for one minor change (the HELP1 file has a keyword in the summary section that isn't actually documented; the help1 file does not). rm one of them, unless you like having two around. The helpfile has a few inaccuracies. Notably, /fastquote is a switch command, not an alternative to /quote, as I indicated in help quote. Every so often, the end of a line gets truncated (this also results in the line being overwritten). This is a problem with the i/o, not my code, since if the actual text was getting truncated, the next line would be displayed at the end of where the earlier line was truncated. Jiro reports using printf() rather than write() in the output() function eliminates this problem on his system, but creates other problems. If the user does not have the cs (set scroll area) termcap capability, TF is forced to use irc-style scrolling, i.e. clear two lines ahead and wrap bottom-to-top. This functions well at 2400 baud, but some find it annoying. Since the input window/output window display is not an option (it will be in my upcoming windowing client, if I get it finished; it's also an option in Grod's tinywar 2.0) people without the cs capability may not wish to use this client. VT-100 terminals have the cs ability, as do most ANSI emulations. VT-52 and Televideo terminals do not. Fugue is almost entirely compatible with tinytalk config files. Two exceptions: 1. "/hilite page" and "/hilite whisper" have been removed. Try "/hilite * whispers, *" and "/hilite You sense that *" instead. (The first format should be modified for !Mucks). Also, various clients have a page-beeping command; this can be simulated with "/hilite You sense that * = /beep 3" or "/def -t"You sense that *" pageb = /beep 3" 2. "/hilite <name>" and "/gag <name>" need to be replaced with "/hilite <name> *" and "/gag <name> *". Greg Hudson "Though the Earth, and all inferior Creatures be common to all Men, yet every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself." -- John Locke, _Two Treatises of Government_, 2nd Treatise