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From: mknewman@lescsse.jsc.nasa.gov (Marc K. Newman)
Subject: Re: Secret infocom commands?
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In <24a36g$nmh@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cq019@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Preston Landers) writes:


>Hello all...

>I'm new to this very interesting newsgroup, and I was wondering if anyone 
>knows about any "secret" infocom commands (ie, undocumented commands).
>An example of this might be something that printed the designer's names, or
>caused funny responses.  Thanks!

>planders
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>PRESTON LANDERS                                cq019@cleveland.freenet.edu
>"The man in the crowd with the multicolored mirrors on his hobnail boots."
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I know that $verify (including the $) does a verification on the
games .dat file in all of the Infocom games, and tells you if it
is OK, sometimes in interesting ways.  There may be other 'undocumented'
commands as well.  One good way to find out would be to get one of the
programs which will print all the verbs in the .dat file, and
just look through them.

Marc
