Zugg Software :: View topic - Problems with a mud-command containing a #

Newbie Joined: 14 Aug 2001 Posts: 2 Location: Germany

Hello,

there is a command in our game called chat#newbie to retrieve the 10 last messages send to the channel "newbie". But when typing this in, zMUD seems to break in some kind. No other mud command is possible.
We found out, that a "0;1c" is prepended to each mud command.

I tried to disable the parsing in zMUD completely but it did not help.

Please help.

Regards

Bardioc of Evermore

PS: This problem does not occur in tf or other mud clients, so it seems to be a problem of zMud.

Novice Joined: 19 Jan 2002 Posts: 34 Location: Austria

zMUD uses the "#" for internal commands, so it thinks you are sending it to zMUD and not to the MUD itself. two things you can do:
look under prferences at the special characters, where you can turn the internal use of special characters on and off, or type a "~" before the "#".
"~" which will tell zMUD that the following character must not be computed internally, but has to be sent to the MUD.
i suggest, you use the second option, otherwise some things might not work in zMUD.
so, if you type chat~#newbie, it should work.

what you can do, to make it easier, is to set an alias like:
#alias chatnew {chat~#newbie}
just copy the above line and paste it into zMUD-prompt.
now, whenever you type "chatnew blahblahblah"
zMUD will send "chat#newbie blahblahblah" to the MUD

psm

Novice Joined: 20 Dec 2001 Posts: 39 Location: USA

Another option, is to change the character used for commands:
View Menu -> Preferences -> Special characters

Set command character to something besides # (something you find easy to use, but that your mud doesn't expect in its input. If you have many triggers, scripts, etc. defined that execute zmud commands the quote solution (~#) is probably easier.

Bob, aka Kayd on SWMud and a few others.