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From: buzzard@world.std.com (Sean T Barrett)
Subject: Re: [Inform] Suppressing the [More] prompt
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Field Marshall Stack <hiway@news.speakeasy.org> wrote:
>Now, bricktext haiku, _that_ is difficult.

Especially if it's constrained to have to communicate
something in particular in advance. The abstract of the
abstract for a paper I wrote was:

  Boyer-Moore scanner
  For finite automata
  Sometimes very fast

Back on topic, obviously people have gotten caught up
on the form of my post instead of the content of my
post, but that's ok, because the whole point of my post
was about an IF work which had something of a focus on
form over content--but existing interpreters ruin the
form.

I'm also reminded of the demonstration room on the old
TinyMUD Islandia. Built by Frand, I think; it was a
little one-room "game" with lots of scenery-within-scenery
to examine--all of it "bricktexted" to 79 columns so that
even with a non-word-wrapping 80-column telnet it appeared
to word-wrap correctly.

The period "outside the box" in my previous post was,
of course, intentional.

SeanB
