Add coverage exception now that SAVE_TAMPERING is back.

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@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ Bug fixes:
 * Behavior when saying the giant's magic words outside his room wasn't
   quite correct - the game responded as though the player were in
   the room ("...can't you read?"). The new message is "Nothing happens."
+  The -o option reverts this change.
  
 * Attempting to extinguish an unlit urn caused it to lose its oil.
 
@@ -62,14 +63,11 @@ Bug fixes:
   bridge spans the fissure." (timeless present).
 
 * A few minor typos have been corrected: absence of capitalization on
-  "Swiss" and "Persian", inconsistent selling of "imbedded" vs. "embedded",
+  "Swiss" and "Persian", inconsistent spelling of "imbedded" vs. "embedded",
   "eying" for "eyeing". "thresholds" for "threshholds".
 
 * Under odd circumstances (dropping rug or vase outdoors) the game could
-  say "floor" when it should say "ground" (or "dirt", or something).
-
-* Bird starts uncaged in the endgame. This is an accidental change
-  that doesn't seem worth the effort to fix.
+  formerly say "floor" when it should say "ground" (or "dirt", or something).
 
 Enhancements:
 
@@ -94,6 +92,7 @@ that random events (dwarf & pirate appearances, the bird's magic word)
 will be reproducible.
 
 A "version" command has been added. This has no effect on gameplay.
+
 The text displayed by the "news" command has been updated.
 
 A -l command-line option has been added. When this is given (with a
@@ -122,6 +121,10 @@ tamper-proofing saves when everyone has the source code.
 A -r command-line option has been added. When it is given (with a file
 path argument) it is functionally equivalent to a RESTORE command.
 
+The game can be built in a mode that entirely disables save/resume, or
+thart autosaves only on a termination signal (for use in BBS doort
+systems).  There is a new nmessage to inform the user about this.
+
 == Translation ==
 
 The 2.5 code was a mechanical C translation of a FORTRAN original.
@@ -158,6 +161,9 @@ afl (American Fuzzy Lop).  We've found and fixed some crashers in
 our new code (which occasionally uses malloc(3)), but none as yet
 in Don's old code (which didn't).
 
+After version 1.11, correctness was carefully checked against the
+behavior of a binary from before the big refactoring.
+
 The code falls short of being fully modern C in the following
 ways:
 
@@ -188,7 +194,7 @@ messages with the objects that conceptually own them.
 We consider this project finished. All issues and TODOs have been
 cleared, behavior has been carefully checked against original ADVENT,
 no future demand for new features is expected, and the test suite has
-100% code coverage.  If the toolchain bit-rots out from under it,
-we will fix that.
+100% code coverage.  If new bugs appear the toolchain bit-rots out
+from under underneath, we will fix those problems.
 
 // end