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+
+This code is a forward-port of the Crowther/Woods Adventure 2.5 from
+1995, last version in the main line of Colossal Cave Adventure
+development written by the original authors.  The authors have given
+permission and encouragement for this release.
+
+The file history.txt contains a more detailed history of this game
+and its ancestors.
+
+This project is called "Open Adventure" because it's not at all clear
+how to number Adventure past 2.5 without misleading or causing
+collisions or both.  See the history file for discussion.  The
+original 6-character name on the PDP-10 has been reverted to for the
+executable in order to avoid a collision with the BSD games port of
+the ancestral 1977 version.
+
+You can run a regression test on the code with 'make check'.
+