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Create a Help command #37

Open adferguson opened 12 years ago

adferguson commented 12 years ago

suggestion from Rodrigo

A Help command would be very useful during interactive testing. Should also provide examples.

adferguson commented 12 years ago

Also, an ASCII-art logo and other niceties on startup, and client login.

adferguson commented 12 years ago

ASCII art is done.

Future fun stuff: command completion, better handling of case where user forgets to enter "." at end of username login.

adferguson commented 12 years ago

period at end of username at login is fixed.

adferguson commented 12 years ago

err, now that we've made the telnet UX so fancy, we need make sure that applications using the protocol are still fine. for example, they should read everything from the socket before sending the username. after that, the messages from the server are more relevant.

adferguson commented 12 years ago

the help command belongs in the separate telnet / interactive client, and not as an actual server command.