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POWWOW(6)                   DragonFly Games Manual                   POWWOW(6)


NAME

       powwow - telnet protocol client for MUD playing


SYNOPSIS

       powwow [ host port ] | [ definition-file ]


DESCRIPTION

       powwow is a client program that implements the telnet protocol, adding
       some bells and whistles to the standard telnet(1) communication
       utility, mainly intended for playing multi-user games such as MUDs
       (Multi User Dungeons).

       powwow is either invoked with host and port, and then does not save any
       definitions, or with a definition-file, which is supposed to contain
       various definitions as well as the name of the host and the port
       number. If the definition-file does not exist, the user is prompted for
       the host name and port number which are saved in the new file. The
       definition file can be edited with any text editor, and is updated
       whenever a definition (action, alias, etc.) is changed. If the
       environment variable POWWOWDIR is defined, powwow will look there first
       for definition files (and create new ones there).

       Lines that begin with `#' are assumed to be special commands to be
       processed locally. Help is available with the #help command. There is
       also a more detailed manual somewhere. Notably, semicolons separate
       commands on a single line. To send a literal semicolon, prefix it with
       a backslash.

       powwow also supports the MUME editing protocol for editing texts
       locally. The name of the editor is taken from the environment variable
       POWWOWEDITOR or EDITOR.  emacs(1) is used by default. For text viewing,
       POWWOWPAGER is searched, then PAGER and more(1) is used by default.

       If the first character of the editor is `&' (which is then skipped),
       the editor is assumed to run in another window and powwow will run
       concurrently with the editor without waiting for it to finish.

       When launched, the editor program will have its TITLE environment
       variable set to the document title sent from the MUD.


AUTHOR

       Massimiliano Ghilardi <max@Linuz.sns.it> and Gustav Hallberg <gustav at
       gmail dot com> are the people that added many new features to an
       existing client, Cancan and transformed it into powwow.  Mattias
       Engdegard (f91-men@nada.kth.se) was the original author of Cancan but
       many other people have contributed at least as much, including Finn
       Arne Gangstad (finnag@pvv.unit.no), David Gay (dgay@di.epfl.ch), Gary
       Dezern (gdezern@satelnet.org) and Lai-Chang Woo (vivriel@scs.com.sg).

       powwow moved to hoopajoo.net in 2005, and is now maintained by Steve
       Slaven <bpk@hoopajoo.net>, please send bug reports and patches to that
       address.

       The powwow WWW page is: http://hoopajoo.net/projects/powwow.html

       powwow was originally inspired by Peter Unold's Tintin client, but now
       only bears a very remote resemblance to the original. It aims to be a
       simple but very interactive client, and contains features that are
       interesting for ``immortal'' players, in particular on MUME, though any
       mud player should benefit from powwow as well.


FILES

       powwow           The binary.

       $(POWWOWDIR)/*   Definition files for aliases, etc.


ENVIRONMENT

       TERM   Your terminal type.

       POWWOWDIR
              Where powwow will store and search for its files by default.

       POWWOWEDITOR or EDITOR
              Name of editor to use.

       POWWOWPAGER or PAGER
              Name of pager to use.


SEE ALSO

       telnet(1), more(1), emacs(1)


DIAGNOSTICS

       Most diagnostics are self-explanatory. Some are even more self-
       explanatory than others, namely those who crash the program.  There is
       a diagnostic report called `core' which is not currently in human-
       readable form.  The messages from powwow are generally prefixed with a
       `#' to separate them from output from the remote host.


BUGS

       Are you kidding?

powwow 1.2.16                     2008 Dec 30                        POWWOW(6)

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