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  • Telnet problem

    From Alonzo@21:1/130 to All on Wed May 14 17:13:30 2025
    I am running a Mystic BBS and using the "telnet out" command to try to connect with some online MUD sites. I can easily connect to them
    but when I do there is sort of an echo problem.

    You can see the MUD and type when connected to the MUDs but you
    can't see the text that you are typing. Any idea how I could solve
    this problem? If I use the plain old telnet client built into
    Windows and I turn on the local echo option, I can see the
    text, but I want to access the MUDs as doors through my BBS.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: From the depths of Bunker 3 (21:1/130)
  • From maskreet@21:1/114 to Alonzo on Wed May 14 17:41:07 2025
    On 14 May 2025, Alonzo said the following...

    I am running a Mystic BBS and using the "telnet out" command to try to connect with some online MUD sites. I can easily connect to them
    but when I do there is sort of an echo problem.

    You can see the MUD and type when connected to the MUDs but you
    can't see the text that you are typing. Any idea how I could solve
    this problem? If I use the plain old telnet client built into
    Windows and I turn on the local echo option, I can see the
    text, but I want to access the MUDs as doors through my BBS.

    This just came up a few months ago somewhere around here in BBS land. I don't remember what the solution was, someone was able to write an MPL or MPY to address this, or they started to and it worked. I want to say, Opicron?

    But yeah, Mystic won't do MUDs well, it's just straight telnet which MUDs don't operate well on. I had to gate out to my old Synchronet DoorParty setup from my new Mystic DoorParty setup and call out to MUDs from there. Synchronet has an actual MUD module that works pretty well.

    Hopefully someone else can elaborate on what I'm talking about.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2024/05/12 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: throwbackbbs.com -\- meriden, ct -\- (21:1/114)
  • From Alonzo@21:1/130 to maskreet on Mon May 19 16:50:50 2025
    Hi and thanks a lot for your help.

    But yeah, Mystic won't do MUDs well, it's just straight telnet which
    MUDs don't operate well on. I had to gate out to my old Synchronet DoorParty setup from my new Mystic DoorParty setup and call out to MUDs from there. Synchronet has an actual MUD module that works pretty well.

    I found another solution. I used the TelnetDoor program written
    by (I think) Rick Parish. It works great but now I have a different
    problem. When I run it, it tries to execute on my HOST computer
    instead of the computer I am using to test things with. I call
    the host from outside and it just pops a window up on the HOST
    computer. So I have to go in, close the window on my host
    computer, and then log in again. It's so frustrating. The TelnetDoor
    program works perfectly if you run it locally.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: From the depths of Bunker 3 (21:1/130)
  • From dreamchipper@21:1/228 to maskreet on Wed Jun 4 17:13:25 2025
    I was working on that, I didnt have great luck with mpy and started to write a rust program which does work(ish) but far from ready for all. You can test it out on my BBS if you want and report back any bugs you see.

    Dreamchipper

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: SDF-1 BBS: bbs.sdf1.net (ssh: 5022, telnet: 5023) (21:1/228)