Newsgroups: rec.arts.int-fiction
Path: gmd.de!nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!sgiblab!uhog.mit.edu!news.kei.com!ub!acsu.buffalo.edu!goetz
From: goetz@cs.buffalo.edu (Phil Goetz)
Subject: Re: Windows (Re: Plot in interactive works)
Message-ID: <CxvKvt.7sy@acsu.buffalo.edu>
Sender: nntp@acsu.buffalo.edu
Nntp-Posting-Host: hydra.cs.buffalo.edu
Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo/Computer Science
References: <JAMIE.94Oct4115217@akeake.its.vuw.ac.nz> <37fs1v$cq6@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> <FLEE.94Oct13002507@snobol.cse.psu.edu> <37kles$ks@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 15:40:36 GMT
Lines: 16

In article <37kles$ks@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>,
Greg Ewing <greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>
>Perhaps instead of a single "look" verb, there should
>be different commands for looking in different ways?
>e.g.
>
>look		Full description of surroundings
>objects		List movable objects present
>exits		List obvious exits

Yes!  Yes!  I second the motion.

Phil goetz@cs.buffalo.edu

"Lassie!  You've killed again."   -- Mystery Science Theater 3000
