tbaMUD Continued development of the CircleMUD core

Just getting back into some mud development, and I'm playing around running it under Cygwin. All runs well, but I have a question - how can I get the local echo to work when using the standard telnet command that comes with Cygwin. Strangely enough, when I first telnet to the mud, and type in my character name, that appears, but then it turns off local echo for the password, and it isn't re-enabled.

There's probably some dumb option I'm not using....

Hmm, not entirely sure, just tested by connecting to TBA with telnet via cygwin and it does disable when prompted for my password but then does also re-enable for me after I type my password. Not entirely sure what's different between my setup and yours though.

EDIT: I wouldn't imagine the actual telnet version has anything to do with it, but, just in case:

I solved the problem by downloading Putty....

The standard Windows telnet terminal behaves in this manner; it's possible that one ran rather than a cygwin native terminal (cygwin will run native Windows apps - try 'notepad' for example).

I've tried a lot of monkeying with the control codes the mud is sending but I can't manage to trick echo back on again. Manually doing ctrl-[, set localecho works though.

As you say, downloading PuTTY is an easy solution. You will find the MUD receives a 0x27 character when you try to log in if you don't disable the various negotiation options, due to TBA misinterpreting the telnet datastream as a string - I've a patch for this (that also adds window size autonotifications) I'll be submitting when fizban is done with the current merge.