Re: Newbie help with commandresponse #prompt

On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 16:52, jb test wrote:
> Hi!  I just started using lyntin a week ago - great stuff thanks!  But, I'm 
> running into a problem getting started with the commandresponse/wbgmapper - 
> what the heck does it want for the #prompt?? I tried all kinds of stuff, it 
> looks like it will eventually eval to an re?  But nothing I tried seems to 
> work :(
> 
> Anyway, the mud will give a simple prompt, its  like <10P 10M> or so, so 
> please give me a hint of what I should type in for #prompt :)  It also looks 
> like it sets it on the mud side too?   I guess I really just don't get it.  
> To set the above on the mud, the command is

> prompt <@pP @mM>

this looks as if you are using metacharacters of some sort when setting
your prompt. As i read it (and i didnt read it real carefully, so take
this with a grain of salt), commandresponse uses the string that you
provide it to set the mud prompt (using: "prompt your_string"), as well
as the string that it considers to be your prompt & that it looks for in
the data coming from the mud. If you pass it <@pP @mM> to
commandresponse, it will look for just that, while what your mud is
really sending back is <10hp 20m> or whatever. It doesnt look as if
commandresponse compiles the prompt string that you give it as a regular
expression, so may need to change your mud prompt to some string that
wont change or modify commandresponse so that it doesnt try to set your
prompt, and pass it a string which you emote before doing the command
whose output you want to capture.



-davidc

ps. I think i'm right about this, but if i'm not, I would appreciate if
those with real experience with this module would correct my
misinformation.



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