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Adept Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 268

Read in another post about the #SEND hiding what is sent to the mud so that there is no spam on there. I LOVE IT! but....it don't seem to work in all cases...

Enchanter Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 698

No guarantees here. Just shooting from the hip, but worth a try.
I think you need to expand the variable before you send, otherwise the mud will receive c @madspam

Adept Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 268

I'll try, but since nothing is sent after wake, as in no errors of "You don't know a spell by that name" type of errors and the sleep quilt command is not sent either, I don't think it will work. But i am speaking before I try :-)
I'll update when i do.

Adept Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 268

Nope, didnt work :(

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

The #SEND command is also used to send the contents of a text file to the mud. It expects to only see 1 arguement, which it then checks for a filename and then sends the appropiate thing. This is why your second arguement is being ignored.

I still can't seem to say it enough times, use delimeters such as quotes, braces and parenthesis even when you think they aren't needed.

Quotes are proper when no expansion is required, and also used to stop unwanted expansion.
#send "sleep quilt"

Braces can be used almost anywhere. They allow expansion, but are not reccommended for use in expressions; such as #IF (expression)...
#LOO @madspamtimes {#send {c @madspam}}
#send {show @madspam}
#send {cast '%i'}

Apprentice Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Posts: 157 Location: USA

Ah hah, that's why my #send drink health didn't work over in the other thread. #send "drink health" works.

Note that the help file specifically shows #send hello there as an example, not #send "hello there", so those of us who didn't realize #send wants only one argument have a good reason for the mistake.

Adept Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 268

Vijilante, I wish that it actually worked...

#LOO @madspamtimes {#send {c @madspam}}
------------------------------^ filename expected <-- Zmud error
#send {show @madspam}
---------^ filename expected <-- Zmud error
(silly forum and not accepting multiple spaces

Theragil, oddly enuf, my #send sleep quilt works perfectly with out the quotes. so there still might be something weird about yours. and maybe the help file is correct with out the quotes?

Adept Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 268

Oh and #SEND "cast '%i'" gives me You don't know any spells of that name.
So that is wrong as well since cast '%i' worked :(

Apprentice Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Posts: 157 Location: USA

I wonder what configuration setting could affect this. It's extremely non-obvious, anyway. But at least now I have it working and the spam is cut down significantly in a lot of situations. I'm happy.

Now I need to get around to making a front end to #untrigger that lets me gag the "trigger removed" message without the threat of gagging something else if there was no trigger to remove. I wish we just had a "#silent" command that did anything you could do otherwise, only silently, so #gag is used to gag things that come from the MUD, not also coopted into trying awkwardly to gag unnecessary messages zMUD itself produces.

Newbie Joined: 18 Jul 2004 Posts: 3

DeathDealer,

#var temp_variable test
#echo "abc @temp_variable 123"
Output: abc @temp_variable 123
#echo %quote(abc @temp_variable 123)
Output: abc test 123

You are sending the variable name to the mud, not its contents.

Try using the following alias instead of the #send command:
#alias send {#send %quote(%1)}

your example would be:

#loop @madspamtimes {send "c @madspam"}
send "show @madspam"

That work?

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

Adept Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 268

I stand totally corrected...
The code Vijilante gave DOES work perfectly.
I didnt try them because I got the error msg

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Thanks for pointing out the error in the help file. I will put it in the bug list.