amolitor@eagle.wesleyan.edu (08/03/90)
Archive-name: tint/30-Jul-90 Original-posting-by: amolitor@eagle.wesleyan.edu Original-subject: New Version of TINT (the VMS client) Archive-site: lancelot.avalon.cs.cmu.edu [128.2.242.79] Archive-directory: /pub Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) A couple weeks ago I stuck a new version of TINT (the VMS TinyMUD client I wrote) up on lancelot.avalon.cs.cmu (in the /pub directory. Anonymous FTP and all that. You know) I posted some stuff about it, but my news software declined to send it off campus. Therefore, I repost. The new version is in a file called autotint.shar. You should also get the tint1-5.shar file, since the autotint file has no documents or anything. Also save this post, since what I document below is not and will not be documented elsewhere. Autotint is my private version, and I'm only releasing it on whim. Besides a number of bug fixes, the following changes have been made in autotint. \hilite <person> and \unhilite <person> have been added. \save is gone (the file format for \load was modified a bit) \att attaches to the parent process, if any (you can spawn a subprocess to run TINT in, and then attach back up. Thanks to Myrthful here) \pipe <filename> sends the specified file up to the MUD. \help is gone. The line editor is really really simple. It allows backspace. Period. But it does wrap correctly and so on, and let you enter very long lines, which previous versions did not. If you want a better editor, feel free to write one. The load file format no allows you to continue lines. Any line ending with a dash (-) is assumed to continue on the next line. This allows you to gracefully enter long macros (up to 512 characters, or something?). Any line starting with a percent sign (%) is assumed to be a comment and discarded. There is also a bunch of automation code. I won't document this. I don't like bozos with 'borgs. If you want to use my cyborg, you can peer at the code and figure it out. Perhaps. Andrew/bob@Chaos (the puppetmaster secretly in control of the Random Gang)