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MOO Command Summary (mcs)

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Inofficial LambdaMOO Beginners Quick Reference

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NOTE: This information pertains to the text-based telnet mode of MOOing. If you are logged in with Xpress, you may wish to skim this guide and then click on the Guide Note to see more Xpress client-specific commands.

This is a compilation of all command-line help topics available to the beginner, together with some short explanations for every item. This summary was written for the original LambdaMOO and for text-based MOO commands only, and thus some of the commands listed below are special to that site and not implemented here at Lingua.

Type 'help ' to get the info.

The items below doubly underlined headers (like this: ========) are help topics

only, they cannot be used as a command.

summary

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help -- get helpful texts & command descriptions

introduction -- what's going on here and some basic commands

index -- index into the help system

players -- setting characteristics of yourself

movement -- moving yourself between rooms

communication -- communicating with other players

manipulation -- moving or using other objects

miscellaneous -- commands that don't fit anywhere else

building -- extending the MOO

programming -- writing code in the MOO programming language

editors -- editing text and code in the MOO

tinymud -- a list of equivalences between MOO and TinyMUD concepts/commands

wizards -- what are wizards?

wizard-list -- current list of LambdaMOO wizards

@arb -- current list of people on the Architecture Review Board

LambdaMOO -- the `theme' of LambdaMOO, what new building should be like

manners -- the commonly-accepted rules of behavior on this MUD

cracking -- policy regarding system security holes

help/indices

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help/information/? -- display (hopefully) helpful text

index -- list these:

lmoo-index -- LambdaMOO-Specific Help Topics (#3223)

gen-index -- General Help Topics (#145)

full-index -- EVERYTHING

system

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@who -- finding out who is currently logged in

@lastlog -- finding out when some player last connected to the MOO

@wrap -- adding word-wrap to the lines you see

@linelength

@more [rest|flush] -- display suspended output

@pagelength

@version -- printing the MOO server version number

@memory -- gives info about server memory usage. useless for non-wizards.

@uptime -- amount of time since the last restart of the server.

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players

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help registration -- explain how to get a character

@describe -- setting what others see when they look at you

@gender -- changing your player's gender

@password -- changing your player's password

@sethome -- changing your designated home room

@rename -- changing your name and/or aliases

@who -- finding out who is currently logged in

@lastlog -- finding out when some player last connected to the MOO

@quit -- quit playing session

movement

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go - move

home - teleport to your designated home room

@go - teleport yourself to a given location

@join - teleport yourself to a player's location

manipulation

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get/take -- pick an object up and place it in your inventory

get/take/remove from -- move object from inside container into your inventory.

drop/throw -- remove an object from your inventory and place it in the room

put/insert -- take an object from your inventory and place it in a container

give/hand -- hand an object to some other player

@move to -- teleport an object to a given location

@eject -- expel sth unwanted from your room

informational

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look -- see what an object looks like

inventory -- print list of things carried

whereis -- locating other players

@examine -- print useful of information about the object

@contents -- print contents of an object

@locations -- print names and object numbers of all containing objects.

@parents -- print names and object numbers of all ancestors.

@find #- locate an object by number

@find - locate a player

@find : - locate a verb on an object in your vicinity

communication

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say/" -- talking to the other connected players in the room

whisper -- talking privately to someone in the same room

page -- yelling to someone anywhere in the MOO

emote/:/:: -- non-verbal communication with others in the same room

news -- reading the wizards' most recent set of general announcements

@gripe -- sending complaints to the wizards

@typo @bug @idea @suggest @comment

-- sending complaints/ideas to the owner of the current room

help gagging -- screening out noise generated by certain other players

help mail -- the MOO email system... see below

help security -- facilities for detecting forged messages and eavesdropping.

help notes -- reading, writing, encrypting notes

other help is available on

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keys -- sort of regular expressions

key-representation

pronouns -- useful, read this!

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building

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creation -- making, unmaking, and listing your rooms, exits, and other objects

topology -- making and listing the connections between rooms and exits

descriptions -- setting the names and descriptive texts for new objects

locking -- controlling use of and access to your objects

messages -- special descriptive texts

containers -- objects that can hold sth (e.g. yourself)

rooms -- places

creation

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@dig -- conveniently building new rooms and exits

@create -- making other kinds of objects

@recycle -- destroying objects you no longer want

@recreate -- This is a combination of @create and @chparent.

@quota -- determining how many more objects you can build

@count -- determining how many objects you already own

@audit -- listing all of your objects

@add-owned -- adds an object to your .owned_objects property

@sort-owned -- sorts your .owned_objects property

@verify-owned -- verifies your .owned_objects property

@classes -- listing all of the public classes available for your use

@realm -- listing the parenting tree for objects owned by one or more players

@move -- moving your objects from place to place

topology

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@dig -- creating new rooms and exits

@add-exit -- adding other players' exits from your rooms

@add-entrance -- adding other player's entrances to your rooms

@remove-entrance

@remove-exit

@exits -- listing all of the conventional exits from your rooms

@entrances -- listing all of the conventional entrances to your rooms

@resident -- listing or changing the residents of your rooms

descriptions

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@rename -- setting the name and aliases of your objects

@describe -- setting what others see when they look at your objects

@messages -- listing and setting the other descriptive texts on an object

help messages

locking

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@lock -- restricting use of and access to your objects

@unlock -- unrestricting use of and access to your objects

messages

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container-messages -- the messages on objects that can contain other objects

exit-messages -- the messages on exit objects

thing-messages -- the messages on objects that can be taken and dropped

room-messages

teleport-messages

containers

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put -- putting an object into a container

remove -- taking an object out of a container

@lock_for_open -- setting the lock for opening a container

@unlock_for_open -- clearing the lock

@create

help container-messages

@opacity

editors

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@edit : invokes the Verb Editor (edits verb code)

@notedit invokes the Note Editor (edits note text)

@notedit .invokes the Note Editor (edits text property)

@send invokes the Mailer (edits a mail msg)

@answer [] [...] invokes the Mailer (edits a reply)

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