[MudNet-Announce] MudNet 4.0.3a update
Robby Griffin
rmg@MIT.EDU
Fri Jun 15 18:59:01 2001
I've released the MudNet 4.0.3a update which fixes a few things and
adds some documentation. Installation instructions are on the webpage
at http://www.mudnet.org/install-updates.php
Changes in this release:
- hardcode fix for some sync failures
- hardcode fix for dropped channel subscriptions after bot restart
- re-fix penn mnwho
- re-fix penn pmatch, in case this didn't work the first time
- de-spam mnpage feedback
- Oops, no pmatch() or ifelse() on older TinyMUSH.
- The time has come to drop the mn* command, which causes things to fail
silently when you typo any other mn command. It's probably better to fail
silently on valid mn commands when the bot's not connected.
- Make sure we have a normal ansi normal on Penn.
- Add long_fingers on Tiny; this allows MudNet to deliver channel messages
to non-players using @pemit/list (plain @pemit is not similarly broken,
so we could also theoretically @dolist to deliver channel messages, ugh).
- Add mnupdate command for wizards to request automatic installation of
future softcode updates. Not yet activated.
- Update and shorten mncredits, and refer to the webpage for
additional history.
- Add mnhelp mnlock.
- COMSYS UPDATE:
o Add Felix@Century's 'mn chan message'.
o Add last-channel tracking and 'mnc message'.
o Consistently use r(0) instead of %q0.
o Combine mncwho and mncwhoall for better handling of missing args.
- Penn workaround for safer_ufun blockage of u() on wizards.
Please note that if you've disabled the comsys, you'll probably need
to do so again after this update; new comsys commands are added.
Known remaining issues:
- mnupdate doesn't do anything yet.
- newer PennMUSHes produce some ansi codes not translated by the bot.
- multi-line mnmail messages are still not allowed.
- the format of channel messages is not customizable per-user.
- DOING doesn't work from softcode on older TinyMUSH either.
- there's no mncboot/mnboot/mntoad.
- install takes too long.
- Older TinyMUSH doesn't have ansi at all.
--Alierak