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MUD Shell
TGandalf writes "MUD Shell is a shell for end users- as easy to use as a MUD or a text adventure game. View an example session and download the source (16KB). It translates your filing system into a map, so cd.. becomes gonorth or simply n. File copying via the shell involves moving to one location, taking objects, then moving to another location to drop them. We got the idea from reading a thread on SlashDot." Allright I can't imagine actually using this, but I gotta give props. Very clever.
Isn't this just like the Adventure Shell, which has been around for a long time? Seems pretty MSInnovative to me.
-- Erich
Slashdot reader since 1997
> enter /etc
>look
[listing deleted for brevity]
>look at smb.conf
smb.conf looks interesting. You might be able to write to it and delete it. You definitely cannot execute it
> wield SwordOfDeletion
> attack smb.conf
You hit smb.conf hard.
smb.conf savages you with a death spell.
You feel weak.
You run away to /
> say "shit, forgot to su"
Back in the 80s, I'd use DOS and play Infocom games constantly. Whenever I lost my train of thought, I'd do either L or DIR absentmindedly, just to get me restarted.
Of course, half the time, I'd get I don't know the word 'dir.' and the other half I'd get Bad command or filename: L.
Got so bad I made an L.BAT which did a DIR, which helped a little. :)
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You find yourself surrounded by a mysterious blue cloud. You are unable to move.
"You might get eaten by a core ^h^h^h^h grue."
Heh.