Telnet oddness.

MacroFiend · Post by **MacroFiend** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 3:10 pm

So I finally take the plunge and set up the MQ telnet. I connect fine ... I get the banner ok ... but in order to pass anything to MQ, I have to dump it all in there via cut & paste (even my password). I'm using PuTTY with its default settings.

Is anyone else having a similar issue or know of a setting I missed when setting up the PuTTY session?

MQSEQ · Post by **MQSEQ** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 3:41 pm

I use PuTTY all the time and have not seen this issue. I have seen the screen jump around tho.

You might be talking about when you typing and stuff is scrolling across the screen your commands are chopped up on different lines? If so this is normal and is normal to telnet, try to contiue typing and hit enter to see if it accepts the command. I have this scenario happen all the time thats one of the reasons I'm writing my own Telnet program for MQ.

MacroFiend · Post by **MacroFiend** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 3:58 pm

No ... what it seems to be doing is timing out my keystrokes and parsing them before I hit enter at all.

i.e. ... I manually type /stand

MQ sees
/
s
ta
nd

So it gives me a who of the zone and barks about unparsable commands.

If I paste /stand in via cut & paste, it goes through fine.

Jaerin · Post by **Jaerin** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 4:39 pm

Well if there is output to your telnet session from MQ it will break up your command, but it shouldn't affect the command you typed.

For example:

/stSometext sent from MQ
asome other text
nd[hit enter]

It still sends /stand to EQ.

That's just because it doesn't A) have a command line that is outside of the output and B) doesn't delay text returned to your telnet session if you are typing something.

It's a very simple telnet server so it's not that feature rich, but it's quite work able.

Jaerin

Dogvomit · Post by **Dogvomit** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 5:37 pm

I use zMud client for telneting into MQ .. Works great
You can setup buttons for commands.. I have one that toggles /mapfilter npc and one for /mapfilter pc .. You can also setup triggers and you can set line colors.

Jaerin · Post by **Jaerin** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 5:39 pm

Never tried that, but I use zMud all the time. It rocks for playing MUDs

Jaerin

MacroFiend · Post by **MacroFiend** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 6:02 pm

I know it is a relatively simple telnet server. My problem is that it seems to be pushing all the keystrokes through as though I hit enter. Can't really tell if it is doing it on a pulse cycle or not though.

Dogvomit · Post by **Dogvomit** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 6:07 pm

yeah i got the same thing when i tryed to use the ms telnet .. every keystroke would send the key presed and a lf ... dont know why.

Plazmic · Post by **Plazmic** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 10:01 pm

MQ expects line-at-a-time mode... putty does this (for most people?), zMud does this, ms telnet does not (it's character-at-a-time)

MacroFiend · Post by **MacroFiend** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 10:44 pm

Well ... found the problem. PuTTY 0.51 (which I've been using for ages) doesn't support line at a time. So I grabbed v0.53b and it is all happy happy.

DreamKing · Post by **DreamKing** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 2:02 am

I use ZOC and it seems to ignore everything after the first 4 characters when using a / to start the line. Most peculiar. I just type my commands in the EQ window and use telnet for output.

eq_freak · Post by **eq_freak** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 3:11 pm

Hmm, I'm having a similar strange problem:

I connect with putty to localhost port 4000, get the welcome msg, enter password and I get connected. I see the /guild spam etc fine in the telnet window.

If I type /who in putty and hit enter, nothing happens though. If I alt-tab to another program and back to putty, still nothing. If I alt-tab to EQ, _then_ the /who command goes through.

Anything I can do to fix that?

Scrime · Post by **Scrime** » Sun Oct 12, 2003 4:23 pm

Try running EQ with EQW. I have having a similar problem with macros, etc when EQ in native windowed mode didn't have the focus. Fixed it right up with EQW.