Re: Playing Crossfire

["'Most Excellent' Eric Mehlhaff" <mehlhaff@crl.com>]

Peter Mardahl <peterm@soda.berkeley.edu> recently wrote:


>In message <199407202239.AA08500@longwood.cs.ucf.edu>, "Aphrodite (Deborah L. 
>S
>nead)" writes:
>
>  When are we going to start maintaining a FAQ?  
>
>Anyway, to play crossfire via telnet:
>>xhost coke.csua.berkeley.edu
>>xset +fp tcp/coke.csua.berkeley.edu:13325         (This will make loading qui
>cker)
>>telnet coke.csua.berkeley.edu 13326
>Trying 128.32.131.73 ...
>Connected to coke.csua.berkeley.edu.
>Escape character is '^]'.
>set font
>add alfven.eecs.berkeley.edu        (you use YOUR machine here)

If you ask me, perhaps we should have the crossfire server send the socket
some kind of greeting message upon accepting the connection?  This'd work
sort of the same way smtp/nntp daemons send greeting messages.

 Eric Mehlhaff, mehlhaff@crl.com