Notes on MudCaller
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MudCaller is a MUD client.  A MUD ("Multi User Dungeon") is a multi-user
interactive game.  To play the game, you connect to a MUD server with a MUD
client like MudCaller.  It is also possible to connect to a MUD using a
regular telnet client, but a MUD client contains features like macros to
make things easier.  MUSHes, MUSEs, and MOOs are variants of MUD and should
also work with MudCaller.

This program is buggy.  The mouse doesn't always work (for example in the
menus), so use the keyboard.  There is no VT100 emulation, just tty. 
Frankly, MudCaller works less often than it fails to.  It's probably better
just to use CUTCP Telnet and load a keyboard TSR to handle your macros (I
wrote such a TSR back in college - write me if you can't find one).

MudCaller is a Trumpet TCP application.  The package contains "everything
you need," including the Umslip packet driver, Phone dialer, NTCPDRV.EXE,
MudCaller (of course) and some batch files to put it all together.  I can't
imagine why people think it's a good idea to do things that way.  When you
set up Internet on your system, you want to do things one step at a time,
solving problems as you encounter them, not tackle them all at once.  You
want to be able to run more than just one application, and set them up the
way you like them, not the way somebody else does.  You want to be able to
select the best program for each use, not get stuck with somebody else's
idea of what's best.

So I will assume that you're *not* following the directions in INSTALL.TXT. 
If you are, stop reading now.  Otherwise, I assume you've already got your
packet driver set up (Umslip is not a good choice since it won't work with
every application), and your packet driver is working with either Ping or
WATTCP ftp.

The next thing you need to do is set up Trumpet TCP.  You need to set some
environment variables, to wit:

    SET IP=127.0.0.1
    SET NETMASK=255.255.255.0
    SET GATEWAY=127.0.0.2
    SET DNS=127.0.0.3
    SET TIME=127.0.0.2
    SET MSS=512
    SET RWIN=512
    SET TZ=EST5EDT

See tcp201.txt on this site.  IP and GATEWAY may need to be set in your
login batch file if you have dynamic IP; the others can be set in
AUTOEXEC.BAT.  (If you have static IP you can set everything in
AUTOEXEC.BAT.)  IP, NETMASK, GATEWAY, and DNS are required, and MSS and RWIN
are recommended (required for Frank Molzahn's drivers).  The others don't
matter much.

If you use environment variables, you don't need to use any command-line
options with NTCPDRV.EXE, and you don't need BOOTP support.  Just do this:

    ntcpdrv
    mudcall
    ntcpdrv -u

Run INSTALL.EXE, tell it you have BOOTP (even if you don't), and it will
generate MUDCAL.BAT which will do the above.

The version of NTCPDRV.EXE on my site (get file ntcpdrv.zip) is different
from the one in slip_mud.zip and seems to work better.

See MUDCAL23.DOC for usage information.