From: Eric S. Raymond Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 06:42:51 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Documentation polishing. X-Git-Tag: takebird~17 X-Git-Url: https://jxself.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=752ac087377c02ad0391c812c088f1908bf06efa;p=open-adventure.git Documentation polishing. --- diff --git a/notes.adoc b/notes.adoc index 9981a12..615fadd 100644 --- a/notes.adoc +++ b/notes.adoc @@ -11,8 +11,9 @@ 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. Petr Voropaev contributed fuzz testing. Aaron -Traas did a lot of painstaking work to improve test coverage. +gratefully acknowledged. Petr Voropaev contributed fuzz testing and +code cleanups. Aaron Traas did a lot of painstaking work to improve +test coverage. == Nomenclature == @@ -52,10 +53,6 @@ Bug fixes: * Attempting to extinguish an unlit urn caused it to lose its oil. -* Unrecognized words are no longer truncated to 5 characters and - uppercased when they are echoed. (This behavior is restored by the - oldstyle switch.) - * "A crystal bridge now spans the fissure." (progressive present) was incorrect most places it appeared and has been replaced by "A crystal bridge spans the fissure." (timeless present). @@ -71,6 +68,10 @@ for a turn, 'i' for 'inventory', 'g' for 'get', and 'd' for 'drop'. The 'd' alias collides with 'd' for 'down', but the others have been implemented. The "-o" (oldstyle) option disables them. +Unrecognized words are no longer truncated to 5 characters and +uppercased when they are echoed. The "-o" (oldstyle) option restores +this behavior. + A "seed" command has been added. This is not intended for human use but as a way for game logs to set the PRNG (pseudorandom-number generator) so that random events (dwarf & pirate appearances, the bird's magic word)