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• Oldschool games > MUD

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• https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/ - Telnet BBS directory

Clients ∞

Cross-platform clients ∞

• http://lyntin.sourceforge.net/

  • python, abandoned

Windows clients ∞

• /tag/telnet-clients+windows-software

• JMC -- I used to like this a whole lot.

• http://www.zuggsoft.com/zmud/zmudinfo.htm

  • Impressive.

Linux clients ∞

• /tag/telnet-clients+linux-software

Telnet server programming notes ∞

• Ruby's net/telnet.rb allows the creation of a telnet client in Ruby.

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20101119045533/http://ruby-doc.org:80/stdlib/libdoc/net/telnet/rdoc/classes/Net/Telnet.html
  • was rubymanual.org/class/Net::Telnet (not archived)
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20090501082826/http://www.rubycentral.com:80/book/lib_network.html
  • Ruby's threads reportedly break Ruby/Event

• https://web.archive.org/web/20160313023448/http://rubyforge.org/projects/butler/

  • A clean IRC-bot implemented in Ruby, supporting plugins, localization, logfiles and sporting a Telnet-Server for direct connections.

• https://web.archive.org/web/20120525173651/http://segment7.net/projects/ruby/snippets/client.rb

  • Might be adaptable.

• http://www.mosha.net/01-telnet-gateway/telnet.shtml

  • Gateway

• https://zedshaw.com/

  • Zed A. Shaw <zedshaw at zedshaw.com> has been working on a telnet emulator for scripting green screen applications at work.

• JTA

  • Telnet/SSH for the Java(tm) platform

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• Separate the underlying protocol into its own library
• Issues of servers not sending line termination

• Issues of working with string matching