Contents

 
• HOW TO CONNECT AND OTHER BASICS
  • Introduction
    • Conventions and style of this manual
    • 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
        • Installing tkMOOlite under Win95
        • tkMOOlite@TecfaMOO
      • Tiny Fugue (Unix)
        • 11.1 Features
      • Emacs clients (Unix)
        • Features
        • Available Commands
      • Muddweller (Mac)
      • MudWin (Windows)
      • Java Applets
      • [TECFAMOO] Getting a user name
    • 1.5 Manners on a MOO
    • 1.6 Bugs, please help us !
  • Communication and Navigation
    • 2.1 Basic standard MOO commands
      • Basic Communication
        • 'say' - Say anything out ``loud'' to everybody in a room
        • 'emote' - Non-verbal expressions
        • 'whisper' - private communication
        • 'page' - Communication over distance
      • Basic Navigation
    • 2.2 MOO Mail and Mailing Lists
    • 2.3 [TECFAMOO] Janus' Channels System
      • Adding the Channel System
      • Channel Selection
      • Communication over channels:
        • Communicating on the default channel
        • Switching default and communicating to another channel:
        • Communicating to another channel (without switching default):
      • creating new channels
    • 2.4 Social Features
    • 2.5 Remembering and finding things
      • Remembering Rooms
      • [TECFAMOO] Nicknames
  • Organization of MOO events
    • 3.1 MOO Visits
    • 3.2 MOO Seminars
      • Supporting objects in the MOO:
      • A few rules you should consider
      • Recording the session
• EXTENDING THE WORLD (Building and Customizing)
  • Introduction to Building and Construction
    • 4.1 General information on building things
      • What does ``building'' mean?
      • Listing and killing objects you own
    • 4.2 Rooms and exits
      • Basic digging
        • Creating rooms and exits with @dig
        • Common mistakes and hints:
      • Dealing with exits
      • Customizing your room
        • Declaring a home
        • Describing your home
      • Advanced building
        • Customizing messages
        • Pronouns and other substitutions
    • 4.3 Construction with @create
    • 4.4 Setting messages on things, exits and yourself
  • Customizing your character
    • 5.1 Basic customization
    • 5.2 Your are also what you own
    • 5.3 Customizing they way you appear and talk
      • Setting messages on yourself
      • Social Verbs
  • [TECFAMOO] Building things at TECFAMOO
    • 6.1 The MOOseum
    • 6.2 [TECFAMOO]Fancy Rooms
      • Ken's generic Classroom
      • Ria's multi-room
      • The Tutorial Room
        • HTHelp: Introduction
        • HTHelp: Getting Started
        • HTHelp: Quiting
        • HTHelp: Watching
        • HTHelp: Moving around
        • HTHelp: Communicating
        • HTHelp: Use Summary
        • HTHelp: Developing
        • HTHelp: Two Objects?
        • HTHelp: Text Modules
        • HTHelp: Adding text
        • HTHelp: Formatting text
        • HTHelp: Working Offline
        • HTHelp: Making Changes
        • HTHelp: Change Order and Delete
        • HTHelp: Editing Text
        • HTHelp: Registering Modules
        • HTHelp: History and Future
    • 6.3 Ken's Turing Robot
      • Technical Issues
        • Basic operation
          • Adding A Word For Your Bot To Respond To:
          • Adding a Pattern FOR YOUR BOT TO RESPOND TO:
          • Adding random Responses:
          • Adding a Random RESPONSE TO A QUESTION:
          • Removing and moving patterns
        • Regular Expressions
      • Conceptual Issues
        • Pointers to Bots and Agents
        • Guidelines for building with Ken's Turing Bot
        • Example patterns for Ken's Bot
      • A note on external Bots
  • Quota and Security
    • 7.1 [TECFAMOO]The Quota System
      • Quota policy:
      • Administrators:
    • 7.2 [TECFAMOO] Security - Trust and Distrust
    • 7.3 [TECFAMOO] Multi-Ownership
• INTRODUCTION TO MOO PROGRAMMING
  • Basic MOO Programming Tutorial
    • 8.1 Documentation on MOO Programming
    • 8.2 Programming: the General idea
      • What is programming?
      • The Elements of Programming
      • Object Oriented Programming
      • Functional Programming
      • Procedural/structural Programming
    • 8.3 MOO tutorial, Level 0 (``computer'')
      • STEP 1 - Creating an Object:
      • STEP 2 - Adding a description
      • STEP 3 - Let's add a command verb
      • STEP 4 - Let's program the command verb
      • STEP 5 - Testing
      • STEP 6 - Counting the kicks
      • STEP 7 - Making sure you can do it alone
    • 8.4 MOO tutorial, Level 1 (``holder'')
      • Creating an object
      • Creating a property "holding"
      • The first verb ``add'':
      • The second verb ``dump'':
      • The show verb
      • Cleaning up
      • Adding help
      • What is missing?
      • La morale de l'histoire
        • Modularity:
        • Going further
    • 8.5 Social verb tutorial, level 0
      • The "grumble" verb
      • The "grab" verb
    • 8.6 [TECFAMOO] ``E_WEB'' Tutorial, Level 0
      • [TECFAMOO] Make a child of of an webbed object
      • Write a :http_request verb:
    • 8.7 A crash course on HTTP and CGI
      • The HTTP 1.0 Protocol
        • Client requests:
        • Server response:
      • Introduction to CGI
    • 8.8 [TECFAMOO] ``E_WEB'' Tutorial, Level 1
      • Dealing with cgi queries via the /cgi URL
      • Dealing with cgi via the :http_request verb
    • 8.9 [TECFAMOO] ``WOO'' Tutorial, Level 0
      • Adding a webby description
      • Adding webby verbs
        • A simple web verb:
        • A Web verb with a text box
      • Customizing the :htext verb
    • 8.10 Permissions and Generic Objects Tutorial
      • A short look at Permissions
        • Inspecting and Manipulating Permissions:
      • A generic ``holder''
      • Adding security to the holder
    • 8.11 MOO software, Level0
  • I want to program complex objects
  • Elements of the MOO language
    • 10.1 Introduction to the MOO system
    • 10.2 The MOO Programming Manual and Lambda-type databases
      • Server and Database Basics:
      • The MOO Programming Language:
      • Server Commands:
      • Builtin Functions and TecfaMOO utilities:
    • 10.3 Objects and properties
      • Properties
        • Creation
        • Modification:
        • Removing properties
    • 10.4 Verbs and command parsing
      • Command parsing
      • Verb argument specification
        • Changing verb arguments:
        • Removing verbs
    • 10.5 Variables and Values
      • Values (by Andy Bakun)
        • Numbers
        • Objects
        • Strings
        • Errors
        • Lists
      • MOO variables
    • 10.6 Expressions, statements, commands, oh my! (by Andy Bakun)
    • 10.7 Permissions (by Defender)
      • More on Permissions
        • Objects - rwf
        • Verbs - rdxw
        • Properties - rcw
  • Issues in MOO Programming
    • Features
      • Help on Feature Object Verbs
    • 11.2 Security
      • Writing Secure Verbs (by EricM)
        • Additional documentation:
        • What verbs need permissions checking?
        • What are the main considerations in choosing a format for your security?
        • What is the general structure of a permissions test?
        • What are valid calls to +x, this none this verbs?
        • What is the most useful test for -x command line verbs?
        • Why is it unacceptable to test "player" for security on +x verbs?
        • What's the most secure test for +x non-command line verbs?
        • How do I do permissions-based security for a +x command line verb?
        • Why are +x verbs called using pass() a special case?
        • What sort of combination security tests are reasonable?
    • 11.3 Error handling
  • [TECFAMOO] Programming, What's different at TECFA ?
    • 12.1 [TECFAMOO] Changes due to server upgrades
      • Numeric Verb Indexes
    • 12.2 [TECFAMOO] Local Core
    • 12.3 [TECFAMOO] Blocked Verbs
    • 12.4 [TECFAMOO] Multiownership and controls
  • [TECFAMOO] The World-Wide Web E_WEB Interface on port 7778
  • [TECFAMOO] The World-Wide Web (WOO) Interface on port 7777
    • 14.1 The Low Level Implementation Layer
      • What happens first to a "GET" request from a www client?
      • $web: the core Woo layer
      • $web:get_htext
      • $web:do_url
    • 14.2 Summary of important WWW Core Objects (not done yet)
    • 14.3 The Basic Applications Layer (not done yet)
      • Webby verbs
      • htext verbs
      • The $www_utils package
  • The File Utilities Package
    • 15.1 FUP server builtin functions
      • Security:
      • List of primitives provided:
    • 15.2 [TECFAMOO] The file_handler utils
• TOOLS AND HINTS FOR DEVELOPPING CODE
  • Development and Porting Hints
    • 16.1 Basics
      • Editing
    • 16.2 Displaying and comparing code
      • Listing code
      • Comparing Code
    • 16.3 Using the E_WEB Object Browser
    • 16.4 Porting Code from another MOO
      • Who do I ask for permission to port?
      • Porting Algorithm
    • 16.5 Hunting down code and objects
      • Finding things
        • The @find verb
      • Verb calling sequences
    • 16.6 Eval
      • Basic Eval (by Andy Bakun)
      • Eval Options (by Andy Bakun)
    • 16.7 Debugging Code
      • A few debugging tricks/common errors
        • I set a prop +c that should have been !c, now what?
        • My FO doesn't work
• References
• Index
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