I would be very wary of this. Sounds dangerous to me. :P
I'd suggest making a zone and using scripts to make a new commandset. It
would take a lot of creativity, but hey, that's what your builders are for!
-B.
At 01:19 PM 7/2/98 -0400, you wrote:
>On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Nick Race wrote:
>
>>Instead of coding a whole new set of routines to handle a different
>>situation in the MUD, a coder of mine had the idea of holding the
>>connection, and dropping the character into a shell on the MUD server
>>(logged in as MUDUSER, or similar) now, with the use of scripts, and custom
>>programs, let them play around in the shell, then get back into the MUD, in
>>their character, when they've finished.
>
>MUD++ was working on including a complete telnet daemon. Their purpose was
>that you could do online editing in pico, emacs, or whatever directly on
>the MUD server. (A hacked up version of pico, called secure pico, was
>used.)
>
>You could try the same thing and include a telnet daemon in CircleMUD.
>
>Security will be a large concern though.
>
>--
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>http://patches.van.ml.org/ | stupidity is not thus handicapped.
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