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Each talker had different commands available, but a typical list is as follows: say - talks to the room shout - talks to the entire talker tell - privately talks to another user - similar to IRC/instant messenger "private message"/pm emote - makes an action (for example, assuming your username was 'Jack', "emote smiles at you" would appear as "Jack smiles at you") move/go/translocate - moves to another room - on some talkers this could go from any room to any other room, while on others you we ...

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Talker: Encyclopedia II - Talker - Commands and abilities

Talker - Commands and abilities

Each talker had different commands available, but a typical list is as follows:

say - talks to the room
shout - talks to the entire talker
tell - privately talks to another user - similar to IRC/instant messenger "private message"/pm
emote - makes an action (for example, assuming your username was 'Jack', "emote smiles at you" would appear as "Jack smiles at you")
move/go/translocate - moves to another room - on some talkers this could go from any room to any other room, while on others you were required to follow a map
private/lock - makes the room private
public/unlock - makes the room public again
invite - invites a user to a private or locked room
join - joins a private or locked room
send mail (smail) - sends mail to a user, whether they are logged on or not
read mail (rmail) = reads your mail
delete mail (dmail) - deletes mail
look - looks at who is in the room, and the description of the room
who - sees who is on the talker (on multiple worlds talkers, as well as on talkers connected using NUTS 3.3 connection code, you could type in a port number of name of the world to see who was on that talker as well)
description - enters a short description for a user
profile or edit profile - creates or edits your profile (this works differently in each code base, but was typically 10 lines long)
examine or look (user) - looks at a user's profile
review - sees what has recently been said
review tells (revtell) - reviews the tells that you have recently been sent
private emote (pemote) - privately sends an action
shout emote (semote) - sends an action to the entire talker
quit - logs out of the talker
delete/suicide - deletes your own account
ignore user (ignuser/iguser) - ignores a user, preventing them from being able to send you tells (on some talkers, it also means that you cannot see their messages to the room, and it is as if they vanish)

Most talkers had a variety of other commands, with 50-60 commands total being a typical number. A lot of talkers used the command "set" and then had secondary commands associated with that, allowing you to set your time zones, see if you can see tells, and so forth.

The use of these commands made for an appearance which is similar to how instant messenger programs like MSN Messenger work today. However, they also allowed actions and for you to change your descriptions and such very easily. They were a lot more anonymous than instant messenger programs, as there was no possibility that someone could accidentally find out who you were. IP addresses were only ever visible to the WIZ level users (unlike IRC). They were considered to be a safe way to chat to people.