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Dan Schmidt  <dfan@harmonixmusic.com> wrote:
>X ME and I are the first two commands I type at every game.

The "I" on the first move became common pretty quickly as
games started you with a set of tools. I don't think "X ME"
was that popular until relatively modern times; did some
games start putting crucial info into it, hence causing modern
IFers to get in that habit? (I'm inconsistent about remembering
to do either.)

SeanB
