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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: [Inform] Status Line question
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Matthew Amster-Burton (mamster@u.washington.edu) wrote:
> erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin) wrote:

> >The "cryptic words" are a string stored in the global variable weather. 
> >(Called that because the code is derived from "A Change in the 
> >Weather..." :-)

> Wait, you said So Far wasn't anything like A Change in the Weather.
> Liar!  :)

I was, of course, referring to the *games*. The *source code* that 
generated the games is a separate matter.

Platonically yours,

--Z

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