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I would like to suggest the following two changes to the SHOWCONTCONT
function in ADV.T.  My changes are marked on the lines with the comment
"rjn".  The original code seemed to require that in order to supress
listing of contents, a quiet surface would also have to be a quiet
container.  I was having some difficulty with this, so I made the
changes marked.  Any comments?  Am I missing something here?  Let me
know via E-mail on this board (High Energy Software).

showcontcont: function( obj )
{
    if (itemcnt( obj.contents ))
    {
        if ( obj.issurface and not obj.isqsurface )
        {
            "Sitting on "; obj.thedesc;" is "; listcont( obj );
            ". ";
        }
        else if ( obj.contentsVisible and not obj.isqcontainer
        and not obj.isqsurface )       // rjn
        {
            caps();
            obj.thedesc; " seems to contain ";
            listcont( obj );
            ". ";
        }
    }
    if ( obj.contentsVisible and not obj.isqcontainer
    and not obj.isqsurface )     // rjn
        listfixedcontcont( obj );
}
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I also think the following should be added to class: surface.   When you
"look on" or "look in" a surface, the message that nothing is found
seems to be always returned because doLookin passes to the superclass
and the contents don't seem to get evaluated.  Again, someone correct
this impression if I am wrong....but these changes seem to solve problems
I'm having with surfaces.

    verDoLookin( actor ) = {}    // rjn
    doLookin( actor ) =          // rjn
    {                            // rjn
        self.ldesc;              // rjn
    }                            // rjn
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