Below are listed some of the more common issues new users often ask about. This is not a comprehensive guide to using Mud Master. Many of the items listed here have more complete help available from within Mud Master.

Common Keys:

Ctrl+X	Exit the program.
Up Arrow	Starts navigation of the history buffer. The history buffer remembers the last 50 commands typed. Pressing up arrow will give you the last line you typed. Once you are in the history buffer you can navigate the list with both the up and down arrows.
Down Arrow	Clears the input line. This allows you to clear the line completly without having to backspace out everything on the input line.
Alt+Up Arrow	Enters the scrollback buffer. By default Mud Master remember the last 600 lines received. The input bar will turn red to let you know you are in the scrollback buffer. Up and down arrows, page up, page down, home and end all work while you are navigating the scrollback buffer.

Handy Commands:

/help	The help command views Mud Master's help files. The command by itself will give you a list of topics to choose from. The command followed by a topic name will veiw that topic.
/session	Use this command to connect to a mud.
/zap	Zap drops your connection to the mud. Use this if you want to lose link without actually exiting Mud Master.
/action	This command lets you create actions, or triggers. Actions look for text coming from the mud and respond by doing something of your choice when it sees it. An example might be when the mud tells you that you are hungry, you have an action that does the eating for you.
/alias	Use this command to create aliases. Aliases are command shortcuts. You create an alias name and it responds by executing some commands. For example, you might make an alias called food that takes food from a bag and then consumes it. All you would have to do is type the word food and the alias would do the rest of the work for you.
/write	Write saves all of your defined commands to a file (actions, aliases, macros, etc...).
/read	Read loads up a command file. Commands in the file are added to the commands already in memory.
/default	The default command tells Mud Master you want it to load a command file automatically every time you start it up. This just saves you the work of having to /read your file every time.
/killall	Killall clears everything you have defined from memory. Useful to do before you load up another command file if you want to ensure that only the new commands are loaded.

Running Mud Master:

Starting It Up

There are several good and bad ways to start up Mud Master. Mud Master does not run well if you start it from the Windows Explorer, the Start Menu or a desktop shortcut. Symptoms of an unhappy Mud Master are incredibly laggy typing or reversed typing. The best results are usually obtained by starting a dos shell, changing to the directory you placed the Mud Master files in and running it from the shell. If you want to make a desktop shortcut, create a batch file that starts up Mud Master and make the shortcut point to the batch file.

Windowed

Depending on your system, you might notice a speed difference between running Mud Master full screen text or in a window. Try both ways, see which you like best. You can switch between full screen text and windowed execution by pressing Alt+Enter.