People have asked this in the past, but I think it's probably not a great idea -- it would require that Circle put telnet clients into character mode rather than line mode, which will increase the bandwidth used by the MUD by a factor of about 100 (literally). Lag will be much worse on slow links. Plus, when the MUD lags, it will lag in echoing your characters back to you (which is incredibly annoying), as opposed to the current method which is that lag just means you don't get a reply to your commands, but you can at least see what you're typing. > On a related note. I was wondering if it was possible to incorporate GNU's > readline lib. into circle to get that history, Funky key bindings, et. al. > > So far, I think the only way is to snag a pty, but I doubt many sysadmins wan t > a mud to snag up ALL their pty's :) > > Any suggestions (I know unedited Linux (even up to 1.3, maybe) is limited to 64 > ptys..... > > Mark Crichton >
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