10/6/1992 TINTIN III TINTIN III is a mud client special designed to help dikumudders. It runs under various UNIX implementations. This third release of TINTIN contains a bunch of new features, which I hope you'll enjoy. I know that there're many TINTINIII beta versions around. I'd advice the people running these, to get a copy of the final release of TINTIN-III, coz the various BETA versions are pretty buggy. BTW thanks to the beta testers for their great support. People used to TINTIN v2.0 shouldn't have too many trouble with this version. But do notice anyway, that there has been a bunch of syntax changes: THE V2.0 COMMANDFILES ARE NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THIS V3.0!!!!!!! TINTIN and the future This was the last time I'll release a totally rewritten TINTIN code. Although new versions of TINTIN might occure, they'll be of the format ver.3.x, and will only be released if new bugs are found and/or portability problems with this version can be fixed. People are invited to release clones of TINTIN if they feel they've added something neat. If you release an extended version of TINTIN, THEN MAKE SURE TO INCLUDE YOUR NAME IN THE TITLE-TEXT! This way I hope we can avoid nasty parallel-versions. I might code a tintin with a X-windows interface tho. TINTIN and bugs Well I might have left a bug or two around, but nothing fatal I hope. Should you find any bugs(and debug'em too *HURRAY*) then please lemmie know.. TINTIN and portability TINTIN v3.0 has succesfully been compiled and run under these UNIX-implementations: SunOS HPUX Sequent AIX DEC ULTRIX VAX with ULTRIX 4.1 NeXT and some more.... If you have trouble with compiling under your system, and you know how to fix it, then please gimmie a mail. Makefile for TINTIN III I'm using GNU's gcc compiler. The most important is that the compiler is ANSI-compatible. If gcc isn't installed on your system, then try change the 'gcc' below to 'cc' If CC = gcc Some people's ANSI-compiler somehow don't have the full ANSI-defined standard-library. Uncomment the lines below if your compiler don't have 'strstr' F1 = -DDUNNO_strstr If you recive lots of error from the 'echo.c' file, then try to uncomment the next line: F2 = -DDO_TERMIO Somehow people using Sun and gcc have to redefine the values for the macros TIOCGETP and TIOCSETP. This is really dirty coding and shouldn't be nercessary(but it is sometime). 1/4/1992 T I N T I N (T)he K(I)cki(N) (T)ick D(I)kumud Clie(N)t (hell I simply wanted it to be called TINTIN....) This client is more or less a byproduct from a robot-player prog I'm coding at the moment. This means that the prog. don't has the same amount of features that progs like PMF and tinymugys have(weird features that you don't use anyway...). The prog has however some features special designed to diku-mud that might make it interesting for you. The prog is UNIX only..