Mnemonic: MOVE\r
Shortest abbreviation: M\r
Full command: MOVE MANUAL <displacement>\r
- MOVE AUTOMATIC <estination*gt;\r
+ MOVE AUTOMATIC <destination>\r
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<para>This command is the usual way to move from one place to another\r
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<para><para>where <qrow> and <qcol> are the row and column\r
numbers of the destination quadrant, and <srow> and <scol>\r
-are the row and column numbers of thedestination sector in that\r
+are the row and column numbers of the destination sector in that\r
quadrant. This command also moves your ship in a straight line path\r
to the destination. For moving within a quadrant, <qrow> and\r
<qcol> may be omitted. For example, to move to sector 2 - 9 in\r
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-<para>Modifications I made:</para>\r
+<para>Modifications I've made:</para>\r
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-I converted the flat-text SST.DOC file to XML-Docbook so it could be webbed.\r
-(That's what you're reading now.)\r
+I converted the flat-text SST.DOC file to XML-Docbook so it can be\r
+webbed. (That's what you're reading now.)\r
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+<listitem><para>\r
+The command-help code needed a rewrite because the flat-text form of\r
+the documentation is now generated from XML and doesn't have the\r
+easily recognizable section delimiters it used to. I wrote a script\r
+to filter that flat-text form into an sst.doc that's easy to parse for\r
+command descriptions, and changed some logic in sst.c to match.\r
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-I cleaned up a lot of grubby FORTRANisms in the code internals.\r
+I've cleaned up a lot of grubby FORTRANisms in the code internals --\r
+used sizeof(), replaced magic numeric constants with #defines,\r
+that sort of thing.\r
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I fixed a surprising number of typos in the code and documentation.\r
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-I changed the freeze logic to emit an identifiable magic number and \r
-the thaw logic to check for it.\r
+All the game state now lives in one big structure that can be\r
+written to and read from disk as one blob. The write gives it an\r
+an identifiable magic number and the thaw logic checks for same. \r
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+<listitem><para>\r
+I made the internal pager work, nd in the process got rid of a number\r
+of platform dependencies in the code.\r
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