Introduction

 

This chapter should be consulted in detail by anybody new to the MOO world. Others may have a quick glance at sections concerning just TECFAMOO. Conceptual ``MOO'' issues are addressed in The evolving TecfaMOO Book, Part I and in some of our publications

``MOO, the programming language, is a relatively small and simple object-oriented language designed to be easy to learn for most non-programmers; most complex systems still require some significant programming ability to accomplish, however.'' ([Curtis, 1993, 15,])

 

Conventions and style of this manual

General Style:

At least the introductory sections are pretty informal and mostly example based.

Variables:

words included in ``<.....>'' denote variables. E.g. if you see something like ``<name>'' in a command, you have to replace ``name'' by something else and DON'T type the ``<''.....``>'' !

Literal Strings:

"...." have to be typed as double quotes. They delimit a string!

Moo commands:

'....' Single quotes within text paragraphs are used to denote MOO commands. E.g. ``You should type 'look here' ...'' means enter ``look here'' from your keyboard.

Moo objects

``<obj>'' refers to an object, e.g. #123 or $thing or <name> (something you can see in the room you are or that you carry)

This manual has been basically written for a general public. However it is heavily TECFAMOO biased. Sections dealing with TECFAMOO only will be labeled as such, like this:  

1.4.7 [TECFAMOO] Getting a user name

 
• 1.1 Acknowledgements
• 1.2 Very very minimal communication and navigation
• 1.3 Connecting to a MOO and Getting a User Name
  • MOO Addresses
  • Entering a MOO address to the client
  • Logging into a MOO
  • Getting a user name
  • Changing your email address
• 1.4 Selection, Installation and Use of a Mud/MOO Client
  • tkMOO light (Unix, Mac, PC
  • Tiny Fugue (Unix)
  • Emacs clients (Unix)
  • Muddweller (Mac)
  • MudWin (Windows)
  • Java Applets
  • [TECFAMOO] Getting a user name
• 1.5 Manners on a MOO
• 1.6 Bugs, please help us !