The Diversity University Gateway allows you to access the MOO by using the Diversity University Web Interface. You are then able to move through DU by clicking on directions in the web page. You can look at objects, check who is on the MOO, and even read your MOO mail from the web site. This is great for people who want to visit DU for the first time using an easier Web browser interface, rather than a telnet connection.
You can find the Diversity University Web Gateway Page by going to either of the following addresses:
The Integrated Web/Telnet interface allows those using Netscape Navigator 2.0 for Windows 95 or Unix to display both the Web site page and a live telnet connection within the same Web browser window. You can connect to this by filling out the Autoconnect form. The Integrated interface uses two seperate frames. The top frame provided a typical Web browser view, and the bottom frame allows a synchronous telnet connection using Alex Stewart's Cup-O MUD MUD/MOO client program .
If your web browser does not support Java, you will have to run a non-integrated telnet/client program along with the web browser. After you try to connect using the Autoconnect form, the computer will tell you whether your system will allow the integrated program. If it does not, you will not be able to use the split screen. Instead, once you are connected to the telnet interface, you will want to resize your windows so that you will be able to view both screens simultaneously. You can do this by clicking on the corners of the windows and then stretching or shrinking them to the appropriate size. It is best if the window displaying the Web page is larger than the one for the telnet screen. We recommend that you have your Web browser window cover most of your screen, with your telnet window occupying the bottom portion of the screen.
You have the option of connecting to the DU Gateway as either
a guest or with a web password. Connecting as a guest will provide
you with anonymous, limited access. To log on as a guest, type
anonymous in the box where it asks for your webpass.
To connect with a web password, you must first connect to Diversity University. You can do this by clicking on get a web pass first. From here click on connect to DU via telnet. If your Web browser has been set up properly (with the telnet application chosen as one of the Supporting Applications), selecting this link will launch telnet and connect you to DU. Otherwise, you can use your system's multitasking capability to have the Web browser and a telnet application in memory at the same time. DU's IP address is 128.18.101.106, and the port number is 8888.
Once you have launched telnet or a telnet client and have reached DU's opening screen, you can either connect as your registered character or as a guest. If you have a registered character, type connect <name> <password>. For example, Jane would type connect JaneD passtodu. If you are a guest, type connect guest.
Once you are connected, type @webpass or @webpass <new password> if you want to set a new password. If Jane wants to set her own password to "webvisit" (for example), she would type @webpass webvisit. Your password should be composed only of numbers and letters, and it should not be the same one you use to connect to the MOO. If you type @webpass without your own password, the computer will give you a number password. Write this number down. Now return to the Netscape screen where it asks for your webpass and enter either this number or your own password, followed by return.
You are now connected to Diversity University through its Web-MOO interface.
You can manuever through the MOO by clicking on your
Web page's display of directions: south, north, east, west,
etc. Your character in Diversity University will move accordingly.
If, however, you move in the MOO space, your web page will not
reflect this change unless you click on look around.
Depending on how you've customized your display (see "Customize Page" below), your Web page will show you the different exits available to you, your current location, and provide a map of Diversity University. You can click on any of these objects or exits or on a region on the map to explore the MOO.
If you look at an object's description or properties and want to return to looking at your current
room, click on Return to the Viewer .
This is an example of the list of commands that appears in the center of the screen.
Written by Chelsea Kuzma. Revised by Leslie Harris. Please send comments and corrections to leslie.harris@plattsburgh.edu.