The ShadowMUD supports several different sets of escape sequences for maximum compatibility with the various terminal emulations out there. Most terminal emulations (vt100) for example either use the full ansi escape sequences or the sequences for bolding. ShadowMUD supports the following escape sequence protocols: ansi - enable standard ansi colors, see help color xterm - enable xterm 256 color support mxp - force the use of MXP color tag to emulate 256 xterm colors unknown (this is default, for non-color terminals) Use the <setenv> command to set your terminal protocol. Check <help color> to see how to say things in color. Note that many mud clients use escape sequences, and therefore may become confused by certain terminal types. 'unknown' will never mess up. By default ShadowMUD will attempt to auto detect your termial settings and turn on or off different features based on that detection, you can force the mud to not do that and lock your terminal type using <setenv termlock true> and what ever setting you have in in setenv term will always be used from that point on. See also: color, xterm, setenv