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From: kennedy@   (John W Kennedy)
Subject: Re: xyzzy
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In <43prg4$mmc@nova.avid.com>, david_lebling@avid.com (Dave Lebling) writes:
>Zork was renamed Dungeon by the authors, and then re-renamed Zork.
>The FORTRAN effort started during the (brief) period when the game was
>called Dungeon, and the name stuck to that version.

I never knew that.

Since you're visible here, I suppose you know about ITF, ZIP, Inform, Curses,
etc.  Do any of your fellow Holy Implementors?  Have you or they any
reactions?  And have you any news for us, the poor abandoned children of the
One, True Infocom?