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From: lazuli@eskimo.com (Fred Sloniker)
Subject: Re: Jigsaw, ITF and "Bad optional num"
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Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 06:53:15 GMT
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Graham Nelson wrote, in an otherwise admirable article:

>If you can change to Zip, you'll be doing yourself a favour!
>But I realise not everyone can and, again, apologies.

What's the big deal about Zip versus ITF?  It bugs me that I keep
seeing messages saying it's so much better than ITF, when the two
interpret games identically and ITF is a *lot* friendlier in the
user-interface department (Amiga version).  Plus, Zip has a bug I
consider a lot more important than not running "Jigsaw" right; it
can't even do "Enchanter" without clipping off the last characters of
four different words due to line wrap errors.  I've emailed the author
without luck.  (To be fair, I believe ITF used to have a similar
problem with "Balances", but it's been fixed.)

So, aside from this new bug that's come up with ITF, what makes Zip so
much greater than it?

				---Fred M. Sloniker, cleric at large
				   L. Lazuli R'kamos, FurryMUCKer
				   lazuli@eskimo.com

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