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Kevin Bracey wrote:
[...]

> > Also note that the spec is unclear about whether @buffer_mode is
> > supposed to control word-wrap or flush scheduling. Can you really make
> > a case that it ought to solve David's problem from the spec, or are
> > you relying on the behavior of the ZIP implementation?
> Hmm. The original Infocom spec spells it out:

Perhaps marginally off-topic, and better relegated to the Z-Machine list, but
since it was mentioned here:  Whereabouts does one find the Infocom spec?  It
doesn't appear to live at the archive.  At least, not in any place I thought to
look for it.

[...]


