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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ The principal maintainers of this code are Eric S. Raymond and Jason
 Ninneman.  Eric received Don Woods's encouragement to update and ship
 the game; Jason signed on early in the process to help. The assistance
 of Peje Nilsson in restructuring some particularly grotty gotos is
-gratefully acknowledged.
+gratefully acknowledged. Petr Voropaev contributed fuzz testing.
 
 == Nomenclature ==
 
@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ necessarily pretty ugly by modern standards. Encryption and
 checksumming have been discarded - it's pointless to try
 tamper-proofing saves when everyone has the source code.
 
+A -r command-line been added. When it is given (with a file
+path argument) it is functionally equivalent to RESTORE command.
+
 == Translation ==
 
 The 2.5 code was a mechanical C translation of a FORTRAN original.
@@ -113,9 +116,11 @@ ways:
   We don't need whatever minor performance gains this might collect,
   and the choice to refrain will make forward translation into future
   languages easier.
-* There are a few gotos left that resist restructuring; all of these
+
+* There are a few gotos left that resist restructuring; all but of these
   are in the principal command interpreter function implementing its
-  state machine.
+  state machine. the remaining one is a truly mysterious artficat in
+  the player-movement code.
 
 * Linked lists (for objects at a location) are implemented using an array
   of link indices. This is a surviving FORTRANism that is quite unlike
@@ -124,10 +129,13 @@ ways:
   compromise forward-portability to other languages.
 
 * The code still has an unfortunately high density of magic numbers - in
-  particular, numeric object and room IDs.  There are plans to fix this.
+  particular, numeric object IDs.  There are plans to fix this.
 
 * Much of the code still uses FORTRAN-style uppercase names.
 
+* The code still assumes one-origin array indexing.  Thus, arrays are
+  a cell larger than they strictly need to be and cell 0 is unused.
+
 * The code is still mostly typeless, slinging around machine longs
   like a FORTRAN or BCPL program.  Some (incomplete) effort has been made
   to introduce semantic types.