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2009-02-06 , 23:49
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Originally Posted by subverted View Post
How do you use it with SSH? Is there a method? I 'm on linux and have been using KBTIN but I want to use SSH rather than telnet and KBTIN sucks for SSH MUD connection. I want to connect to a MUD through SSH but am missing something important about how it works. I use screen and XTERM always. In order to SSH, do you just in your own LINUX OS term just type SSH plus username@computername before starting TinyFugue everytime? Otherwise how can you tell it is in SSH mode?
I suspect he meant that he uses ssh to connect to a computer that remotely runs a copy of screen (to make a detachable terminal) running tinyfugue. I've done that lots of times.. but it's also nice to actually HAVE tf right on the Nokia in case you can't reach your own system over ssh or prefer to just connect from anywhere.

Originally Posted by MindMusic View Post
OK I must be dense. I've installed this... how do I use it? I open xterm, but what do I type? :P
It doesn't seem to immediately be in the default path. You can launch it at xterm's command line with:
/usr/local/bin/tf

If you've never used tf before, you will be lost--hopefully you will go out and google up some info on tinyfugue.

I also highly recommend that, to make things shorter.. you can create a shortcut to it with:
ls -s /usr/local/bin/tf tf
Then, from the home directory, you can just type:
./tf

Better still, if you've got root access, log in as root and issue:
ls -n /usr/local/bin/tf /usr/bin/tf
Then, you can just type 'tf' from anywhere to launch it under xterm.