NALEDI ya AFRICA - SERVER PROTOCOL

This document describes the text-based protocol used by the Naledi client to
communicate with the game server.

General syntax: "<command> [<args>]*"

The server will always return a string answer to a command.


COMMANDS

* login <player-name> <password>
  -> "T" on acceptance, "NIL" on denial
  -> Warning: passwords are transmitted and stored in plain text!
  -> required before all other commands

* news
  -> latest news item relevant to the player

* patch-char <x> <y>
  -> "<char> <colour>" of the specified patch

* describe-patch <x> <y>
  -> a string representation of a list of lines describing the specified patch

* move <direction>
  -> "T" on success, "NIL" on failure