G'day, Announcing the netrek lurk program, which can be used to wait for t-mode on a server, by using an observer slot, while displaying game messages on a text console. Download the program from http://james.tooraweenah.com/darcs/netrek-client-cow/lurk.py md5sum faa02f683cd4b9800571e97bb6621fa6 Usage instructions are in the start of the file. Edit the configuration variables to your requirement and then start the program, for example: lurk.py pickled.netrek.org Patches welcome, relative to my darcs repository, http://james.tooraweenah.com/darcs/netrek-client-cow/ The program can also be trivially adapted to obtain the MOTD of a server and then exit. Not yet tested on a server with an observer wait queue. Only tested on Linux. Should work on Windows and MAC OS X provided there is a Python environment. -- James Cameron mailto:quozl at us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://mailman.us.netrek.org/pipermail/netrek-dev/attachments/20070612/2d512551/attachment.pgp