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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: Inform/Zmachine thoughts
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Greg Falcon (professor.falken@pnx.com) wrote:
> Mike Phillips, this is not so much a post to you, but a reply to this
> thread in general.
>
> This may come across as an ignorant sounding question, but what is the
> big deal about having save file compatible across different
> interpreters?

It may be convenient for someone, so, heck, why not?

> I can understand (to some extent) the idea of wanting to clean up the
> z-spec so that everything is rigidly defined.  But explicitly defining
> the format of the *.sav file is overkill, IMHO.

Whoops. that's a different statement. I don't think the save file format 
should be part of the Z-spec. But if two interpreters are going to save 
the same data in equivalent formats, they might as well use the same format.

--Z

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