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From: lazuli@eskimo.com (Fred Sloniker)
Subject: Re: Quick Inform one-shot messages-- how?
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Gareth Rees <gdr11@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

[code example snipped]

>If you have thousands of such messages, then it might be worth keeping
>the `message_text' array sorted for faster lookup, but for a few hundred
>the above inefficient version should run fast enough.

Thanks, Gareth!  This is a nifty little program snippet; I've saved it
for later...

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