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From: Stephen van Egmond <svanegmo@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Spec0.2 and Designers' Manual text versions uploaded
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(Combination mail to Mr. Blasius and post to raif.)

I've uploaded the ASCII .txt versions of the Z-Machine Specification 0.2 and 
the Inform Designers' Manual.

They were formatted on my Amiga while I was not-doing my numerical 
computation assignment.

These are based on the output of dvi2tty (the DVI being generated by TeX
3.14159).   The text pages don't necessarily have less than 66 lines 
between form-feeds, in fact there's probably many that don't.  This is 
because Tex outputs assuming variable font size; DVI reliably spits this 
out, but clearly you will fit less on a 80x66 fixed-font page than one 
that uses Times.

In the DM, there are three special characters which may appear 
differently on different people's computers:

	In TeX output, this is a triangle; one means "technical aside", 
	and two means "really technical aside".  I see it as a circle 
	with a slash through it. (naught)

	Is a bullet that appears before References and Exercises.  I see it
	as a french close-paren, ">>" in one character.

	Is the section number.  It looks like, well, a section number.

Of particular note in the DM is things that look like "hstuffi".  Somehow,
DVI decided this was how it would represent italicized stuff.  I tried to
catch them all and replace them with "[stuff]". 

The files were uploaded in .txt format.  I suggest those who have gzip 
download them with the line

get Specification0.2.txt.gz

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