- Contents

- Title Page

BEGINNING

GETTING TO VALHALLA

Internet

GETTING INTO VALHALLA
GETTING AROUND
VIRTUAL SELF
INTERACTING WITH OTHER PEOPLE

Talking
Emoting
Paging
Whispering
Mail
Discussion Groups
Talking With Text

INTERACTING WITH OBJECTS

Picking Them Up and Dropping Them
Looking At Them and Examining Them

GETTING HELP
WHAT IS VALHALLA?

Purpose
Technical Stuff

WHERE TO GO FOR HELP

THE NEWBIE ARCH-WIZARD FAQ
THE MOO-COWS MAILING LIST
THE ORIGINAL MOO
THE WIDE WORLD OF MOO
THE CEREBUS MOO OBJECT ARCHIVE
COME TO VALHALLA

MAIL

GETTING AROUND IN MAIL

What’s Available?
Reading a Lot of Mail
Deleting Old Mail

SETTING YOUR MAIL OPTIONS

Stickiness
Forwarding Mail to an Internet Address

BUILDING DISCUSSION GROUPS

Moderated Groups
Private Groups

BUILDING

BUILDING THINGS

Creating Objects
Describing Objects

MAKING ROOMS

Hooking Your Rooms To Valhalla

ADVANCED BUILDING

QUOTAS AND AUDITS
TALKING TO THE MOO

Sentence Structure
Where Does Valhalla Look for Verbs?

YOURSELF

Home, Sweet Home
Password
Page Messages
Pronoun Substitution
Keys

OBJECTS

Drop and Take Messages
Containers
Notes and Letters

ROOMS

Arrival and Departure Messages
Who Location
Free Home and Residents
Locking Your Doors

MAKING CHILDREN
USING UNIVERSAL RESOURCE LOCATORS (URLS)

PROGRAMMING

BECOMING A PROGRAMMER
PROPERTIES

Strings
Numbers
Objects
Lists

VERBS

Classes of Objects
Sentence Structure

EDITING PROPERTIES AND VERBS

Properties: Notedit
Verbs: Edit

THE GENERIC SWINGING WEAPON

The Advantages of Being Object-Oriented
A Better Generic Swinging Weapon

FORKS AND TASKS
USING FILES

WIZARDS

CREATING PLAYERS
CREATING WIZARDS, PROGRAMMERS, AND BUILDERS

ADMINISTRATION

COMPILING
CHOOSING WIZARDS
CHOOSING ADMINISTRATORS
LOGIN STUFF

Welcoming Message
Player Creation
Maximum Users

MONITORING PLAYERS

@Net-Who

CHECKPOINTS

Dump Interval

BACKUPS

Database
Objects

DISCUSSION GROUPS

Creating A New Discussion Group

NEW GENERICS
NEW HELP
INTERNET

Mail
Gopher
World-Wide Web
Usenet News

BLACKLISTS

Newts
Toads
Blacklists