I was thinking about this, because Syvel said she didn't understand what was so bad about forcing a wizard with a muf program. In and of itself, forcing is...
Destiny
destiny@...
Sep 9, 1998 9:20 pm
93
Oye, slowly catching up on mail. :) ... The effects of having muf programs using the new glow permissions so long as everything uses 'controls' may not be as...
Artiste Extrordinaire!
artie@...
Sep 10, 1998 1:28 am
94
... I didn't realize non-wizbit MPI could force the acting player like this, or is this a wiz-only trick? Under GlowMuck you can use the @alias command to...
Artiste Extrordinaire!
artie@...
Sep 10, 1998 1:40 am
95
It seems like a lot of this stems from the fact that we don't use the program's mucker level in msgparse() itself, ie we set the 'perms' of the MPI string to...
Artiste Extrordinaire!
artie@...
Sep 10, 1998 3:12 am
96
... to ... keeps ... Why not have a new MUF primitive? me @ #12345 $ifdef __glowver gcontrols $else controls $endif if me @ "You control it." notify else me @...
Stephanie Jansen
sciuridae@...
Sep 10, 1998 2:24 pm
97
... The current GlowMuck distribution has for MUF permissions: Some test on the TINKERPROOF flag which is compatible with nothing else in the server. The...
Jaffa Tamarin
jaffa@...
Sep 10, 1998 5:39 pm
98
... Nope. Mortals can {force} themselves just as easily as wizards (just need to set yourself XFORCIBLE and @flocked to yourself). It even works in GlowMuck...
Jaffa Tamarin
jaffa@...
Sep 10, 1998 6:15 pm
99
This alpha takes a harder shot at fixing some of Jaffa's concerns, but doesn't as yet allow mlevel-based MPI execution. Spaces in paths is fixed in this...
Artiste Extrordinaire!
artie@...
Sep 11, 1998 3:15 am
100
I'd like to request for Glow a property that only W4 players and W4 programs can access. I see on many MUCKs there's no systematic way to handle lost passwords...
Stephanie Jansen
sciuridae@...
Sep 12, 1998 9:25 pm
101
... This system already exists in place, but it is not for W4 wizards, it is for W3 and now W2 wizards. Originally it was just W3 wizards. At some point with...
Artiste Extrordinaire!
artie@...
Sep 12, 1998 11:35 pm
102
... [snip] ... [moresnip] It'd probably be difficult to implement, but wouldn't something like a '@@prop' work, with respect to converting back to Fuzzball? ...
markpasc@...
Sep 12, 1998 11:47 pm
103
Hey, I know a good new feature for glow! A Java Virtual Machine! ;) Mark O'Brien (Natasha of SPR) ...
markpasc@...
Sep 13, 1998 2:23 am
104
... that a ... if ... of ... Real name isn't a reliable way of handling lost passwords. Some people make that information public, putting it in their pinfo or...
Stephanie Jansen
sciuridae@...
Sep 13, 1998 3:02 am
105
... That'd be interesting.. I was thinking about that myself recently, some seperate properly prefixes for the 4 wizlevels, to allow higher wizzes to have...
Pkunk Fury
pkunk@...
Sep 13, 1998 7:38 pm
106
Umm.. Any projection on when GlowMUCK will receive the socket primitives found in NeonMUCK? I'd sure like to see those... ;) --Syvel of Sociopolitical...
Pkunk Fury
pkunk@...
Sep 13, 1998 8:16 pm
107
... Considering Loki is getting bogged down with RL stuff I don't forsee his Neon 3 (Xenon?) coming out any time soon, and I was hoping to use the newly...
Artiste Extrordinaire!
artie@...
Sep 13, 1998 8:19 pm
108
ftp://muq.org/pub/legacy/glowmuck/beta/alpha-8-3.0.4.tgz I highly recommend getting this version for all of you testing the new inserver path code. I realized...
Artiste Extrordinaire!
artie@...
Sep 13, 1998 9:40 pm
109
Hmm. Instead of generating several symbol tokens, how about: <token...perhaps @?><m-level access number>... e.g.: @set me=@4/blah Rendering the '@4/blah'...
Davis, Iain E.
DavisI@...
Sep 14, 1998 1:49 pm
110
I have a question about a few things I cant find a answer for. What do the following do? ****************************************************************** The...
medusa@...
Sep 14, 1998 7:19 pm
111
... V is viewable on muf programs and vehicle on objects. The viewable flag means someone can list the program, and the vehicle flag means an object can...
Destiny
destiny@...
Sep 14, 1998 10:24 pm
112
The 'V' flag means that other players can @list a program. (Besides being vehicle.) It allows a bit more security to prevent people from stealing public...
Artiste Extrordinaire!
artie@...
Sep 14, 1998 10:27 pm
113
Andy, Hmmm, I've got a backwards compatibility issue in the flag? prim. All our code checks for "w" flag?, which now fails for "W1" players and objects....
Mike Dodds
mgd@...
Sep 15, 1998 3:15 pm
114
... I don't know if you have Andy's libray for glow setup on your muck or not, but I believe that's where andy has the macros .mage? .wiz? and .arch? (maybe...
Destiny
destiny@...
Sep 16, 1998 4:46 am
115
Hihi peoples :) Finally got time to look at this a bit. I pulled down the alpha 9 version from the ftp site, so my comments are based on that. Firstly, I...
Jaffa Tamarin
jaffa@...
Sep 17, 1998 7:02 pm
116
Oh, I realize it's "consistant" with the new flags, but it causes a backwards compadibility issue. Anyway wizbitted program out there makes the check "w"...
Mike Dodds
mgd@...
Sep 17, 1998 7:32 pm
117
... True is a part match for the truemage? (I think that is it) flag, which means you are a wizard, regardless if you are quelled or not. That is how it was...
Destiny
destiny@...
Sep 17, 1998 8:20 pm
118
... I hope so. :) ... Side effect #1 that I figured was better to leave this way. That's how it was originally in fuzzball. ... Side effect #2 that I wasn't...
Artiste Extrordinaire!
artie@...
Sep 18, 1998 5:07 am
119
... I would highly recommend anything that does "w" flag? be changed to a muf macro because yes this does change between Glow and FB because of the extra...
Artiste Extrordinaire!
artie@...
Sep 18, 1998 5:14 am
120
... Um, it'd be prolly truemage, I think I go up the stepladder that way. I do try to encourage people looking for a specific flag to use the full flag name....
Artiste Extrordinaire!
artie@...
Sep 18, 1998 5:20 am
121
... For what its worth.. when I originally made the switch from FuzzBall to GlowMUCK, we had _many_ programs that were doing that "W" flag checking... some...
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