The Tavern

I have just discovered on my latest online character that I can't get ctrl-o for dungeon overview to work when connecting by telnet.

I have found the same happens on both CAO and CDO, in 0.8, 0.9 and 0.10 trunk. I would normally be connecting by ssh to CAO, but I started this game on CDO and I can't make head nor tail of the method for getting the ssh-key and using it to connect, so I'm stuck with telnet.

Anyone know of any workarounds for this?

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Pressing *o works for me. (asterisk, then o, rather than the two keys together.)

Thanks, that works. That's something I didn't know about, using * to emulate ctrl...

Saying whether you're running Win, Lin, or Mac might help with getting help.
Personally it's been a long time since I did it, so I forgot all the details.

My suggestions are: Use putty. Don't forget to set your keymap to Nethack. Follow the instructions to get the key (they are detailed, so it's a lot easier than it looks).
Doing so makes logging on a bit faster and more painless too.

And that's a useful work-around!

Ok, I'm using Mac OS X 10.4.11

I tried following the instructions to get the key, but a bit of research reveals that I don't have wget installed and would have to build it myself. I'm not a programmer, and have no idea about building or compiling.

Anyway, using * works, so that will do as a workaround for now, at least until 0.9 becomes available on webtiles.

I think curl was installed by default on 10.4,so this would work instead of the wget command:

Or to skip the command line for downloading the file, just click this link in your browser and choose save as:
http://crawl.akrasiac.org/cao_key
I like to keep the key file in ~/.ssh/ but it will probably work anywhere.
If you use this commnd once:

Then you can use a simpler command to ssh into the server:

I think I remember Apple not using standard ssh libraries at some point, but I think that was 10.2 not 10.4, but my memory could be wonky and I haven't researched it.