# introduction

TinyFugue is a MUD client. It helps you connect to a MUD, in a much more convenient manner than telnet. You can connect to a mud world using the same syntax as you would with telnet: "tf host port". Or, while running tf, you can use "/connect host port". To make things easier, you can give names to worlds, using /addworld, and then use "tf name" and "/connect name". If you store a set of /addworld commands in a file, TF can read them automatically when it starts. You can even connect to more than one world at the same time, and switch between them. See: /connect, /fg, /addworld, worlds, tfrc.

Normally, TF will split the screen into two windows: one for input, and one for output. TF will display useful information on the line separating the two windows, such as the name of the foreground world. See: windows.

Any line you type that starts with a single '/' is a tf command. Anything else you type will be sent to the mud. See: interface, commands.

You can define your own tf commands, called macros. The simplest type of macro is just an abbreviation or alias for a longer command or commands. But macros can also perform much more powerful tasks. See: macros, /def.

You can tell tf to watch for certain patterns in the text from the mud, and then do special things when it sees that pattern: display the text in a special way (hilite); not display the text at all (gag); execute a macro command (trigger); or do any combination of these. See: attributes, triggers, /hilite, /gag, /trig, /def.

TF keeps a history of every line it prints, every line sent by the mud, and every command you enter. You can see those histories using /recall. You can also have this text saved in a file using /log. See: history, /recall, /log.

See also: topics

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