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Newbie Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 4 Location: USA

i have been trying to make a loop.

for example

#LOOP 10 {show mob %i}

but i run into
*** Press return to continue, q to quit ***

so i miss alot of information.
is there a way to make a loop to run and if it sees
*** Press return to continue, q to quit ***
to press enter by itself and finish the loop

Thank you,

Newbie23452

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Check you mud's help for a 'page', 'scroll', 'screen', or 'pause' command. They all pretty much do these days and usually a setting of 0 will tell the mud it doesn't need to produce that highly irritating message.

If your mud doesn't, then based on your description of the problem the mud also exhibits extremely poor behavior by dumping your commands. The scripting solution around this is more trouble then it is worth.

Newbie Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 4 Location: USA

i did some mroe research and found out if i use this command

#LOOP 10 {show mob %i;" ";" ";" "}
that works. it sends a blank line to the mud. same as pressing enter.
And just use word pad or another program to find and replace

*** Press return to continue, q to quit ***
with a blank

Wizard Joined: 14 Oct 2000 Posts: 1368

quote:
Originally posted by Vijilante

Check you mud's help for a 'page', 'scroll', 'screen', or 'pause' command. They all pretty much do these days and usually a setting of 0 will tell the mud it doesn't need to produce that highly irritating message.

The "pager" is an important part of any MUD. Of course the design could have been done differently but it all depends on the purpose of the displayed text. In some telnet applications it is a pain to do scrollback. Actually some don't have any scrollback and then the page paus is really important.

This motivates why the feature once was added. Now 5-7 years later we have clients such as zMUD with a huge scrollback. Making use of MXP a MUD can adapt itself to the client and turn off features not needed by the specific client. Unfortunately MXP doesn't appear to be very popular at the moment.