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From: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: How do I get and use input from a telnet session in Lisp?
Message-ID: <16796@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 28 May 90 04:17:08 GMT
Reply-To: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
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Here's the scenario: In my spare time (!) over the summer, I'm going
to try to write an artificial-intelligence program for a certain game
(TinyMUD by name; email me if you're curious enough).

Now, the actual AI part of it will be easy.  (Yeah, right.)  My
problem is accessing the telnet session.

How do I go about connecting to a specific port on another computer
through Lisp and have its I/O be used by a Lisp program, and, once
I have that data, how can I do something useful with it?

Here's an example.  Say that I first need to connect to port 4321 of
the machine with address 128.129.130.131.  Ordinarily I'd issue a
telnet command from the command line, but I'd like the same thing done
entirely by my program.

Then, after I connect, I read strings of input, and send back strings o
output in response.  For example, I might receive:

	The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

Ideally I'd like to be able to manipulate that sentence as a list of
words -- or, more interestingly, as a list of lists of letters.  How
do I process the input?  Similarly, how do I take the lists
manipulated by my program and turn them into strings of words?

Any and all help is appreciated.

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