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Enter the MOO directly, or read on for more details.

I. How to Get Started II. MOO Command Sheet
III. An Introduction to MOOs
IV. MOO v. Web in Prometheus Unplugged (refers to the 1996 virtual conference)

From the Surgeon General: Individuals entering the Emory MOOspace will in no way expose themselves to mad cow disease.

I. How to Get Started

 TIP: If you're new to all this, you can print this page out for reference.

To access the Emory MOO, you need two things:

  1. Either a direct network connection or a PPP/SLIP connection over a modem;
  2. Telnet or a MOO client (specialized software that lets you access a MOO).

A. How to Enter the MOO

You can enter the MOO in two ways: 1.) using Telnet or 2.) using a MOO client. A MOO client is a program that lets you access a MOO (a Multiple User Domain (or MUD) that is Object Oriented (MUD+OO = MOO)).

a. Using Telnet

Since most people have Telnet, it may be the easiest way to enter the MOO, but it has some significant disadvantages (like you can't separate your input and your output). But it's one way to get started.

If you have telnet installed on your machine, go ahead and enter the MOO.

To manually enter the MOO using telnet, run telnet and then log into your network account. At the prompt, type

This sends the command: Open a telnet connection to the computer named "chaucer.library.emory.edu" (whose address in numerical form is "170.140.16.67") and on that machine, access port "4444".

If that doesn't work, make sure you are including the spaces after "telnet" and "edu". Try again. If that doesn't work, then try this address (remembering the spaces):

If that doesn't work, contact Carole for help.

For more information on telnet and MOOs, see Nick Carbone's Telnet Help Sheet.

Logging In
If you don't yet have a character, type "connect guest" when you're asked to login. If you would like send a character, send mail to Carole Meyers with your name and three options for your character's name. Your character name can be your real name or something invented.

MOOs are interesting in that the rules of singularity and gender don't apply here: you can have a plural character named "Laurel&Hardy," for example, or a gender-neutral character such as "pollen". Amy Bruckman has done some interesting work on how communities develop in MOOs and how traditional categories like gender function in MOOs.

b. Using a MOO Client

MOO clients offer the advantages of separating your input and output fields, so they are preferable to using Telnet. Jennifer Smith's FAQ on MOOs contains a list of MOO client programs for Mac, Windows, Unix, VMS, etc. that are available for downloading. For Mac users, I prefer MUDDweller and for Windows, we recommend Pueblo. You can download MUDDweller here and read a quick help sheet on installing MUDDweller. Get Pueblo here and see our on help sheet on installing Pueblo.

An Aside: If you want to talk in a MOO while looking at Web pages, it's easy to do so. Usually you can load URLs (a.k.a Uniform Resource Locator, the unique address that every Web document has, akin to card catalog numbers) into Netscape most easily by using the "Copy" and "Paste" commands under the Edit menu. Simply select the whole URL (funny line beginning "http...") in the MOO Client window with your mouse, pull down the Edit menu, and select Copy. Then click on the Open button in Netscape's toolbar. A window will pop up. Click in the text box to activate it, and then Paste the URL in. Click Open, and the page should load. Of course, for pages in the Prometheus U. web site, you can just use the navigational aids on the web pages themselves to move around.

To enter the MOO using a MOO client, run the program and access the address:

To login, follow the steps outlined above.

If you run into problems, don't hesitate to mail Carole.

PROMETHEUS HOME Authored by Carole Meyers
Last modified: June 27,1997
http:/prometheus.cc.emory.edu/help.html