This version of the infocom interpreter has been built from the source
file originally distributed in the interactive-fiction group. The source
was built with the options for Gnu Readline, termcap, and _POSIX_SOURCE.

If you choose these options when rebuiilding the game, you should get
the same code file (after stripping it).

This archive is a compilation of the PINFOCOM-3.0 game. The original
source may be found at many archive sites around the world. Use
the archie program and search for the text 'pinfocom_3.0.lha'. The lharc
program will extract the source files.

Specifically, this file was obtained from:

wuarchive.wustl.edu

in the directory

/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/pinfocom

The location may be old by now. Archie is probably the best solution to
finding the program source.

Al Longyear
Longyear@sii.com
June 15, 1993.

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Notes on Version 3.1

Added the -d # linedelay feature, this sets the delay after each line is
printed to the screen.  Value is in 1000th's of second.  Added it to re-create
the text-scrolling effect of older systems.  Values of 10-25 work nicely.

Also, updated a few defaults in the makefile to compile (hopefully) out of
the box on modern linux systems.  This was the defining of -DUSE_TERMIOS, and
-lcurses and -lreadline.  Which just about everybody has these days...
Oh, and undefining the MSDOS turbo c, stuff, I don't think it was used, but
it should be commented out I think...
Finally, changed the default install root to /usr/local...  guess that's
it...

Christopher A. Shamis
cshamis@woh.rr.com
October 19, 2001.