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Crystal

Crystal is a Unix mud client, released under the GNU GPL. It was originally designed and written for users of the Cryosphere, but aims to support all muds. If it doesn't work for you, please let us know.

Crystal in action
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Crystal's philosophy is to provide an interface as unclutted as unix telnet's, but with more features, such as line editing, split-screen scrollback.

Version 0.2.2 (download here, 96kB) has been tested on g++s 2.95, the one mislabelled by Red Hat as 2.96, 3.2, and 3.3. It only works with glibc at the moment. Porting to BSDs is a 0.3 aim.

Features

line editor with full history
split-screen scrollback
window size and terminal type negotiation
ansi colour support and xterm-256-colour support (also, underline, italic, fraktur) where applicable
MCCP (compression) support
logging/dumping
tinyfugue-style prompt grabbing for LP muds
simple scripting support using lua. for this you will need lua 4.0 installed.
full ipv6 support
telnet over SSL support (if you have the openssl library)
xterm titlebar setting
unicode support in unicode terminals
full character set conversion support
DEC linedrawing characters
support for the telnet Multiplex protocol