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From: hartnupj@aston.ac.uk (John Hartnup)
Subject: Re: Christminster gate list
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 15:23:18 GMT
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Matteo Vaccari (matteo@I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN) wrote:
: Jon Conrad (conrad@copland.udel.edu) wrote:
: : I'm relatively new to Christminster, and I'm having trouble with,
: : apparently, a choice of verb.

: : I'm trying to find Malcolm's room on the gate list.  I even checked the
: : hint to make sure I was on the right track, and it says "you can try
: : looking up a surname or room number on it."  Well, I can try but I can't
: : succeed!  It does not accept look up, seek, search, scan, locate, or any
: : such way of looking for a name on the list.  If I look for Spencer with
: : no modifier, it assumes I want his pigeonhole.

: : Obviously I can blunder in all over the stairwells and eventually find
: : his room (in fact I have), but I hate to miss a basic thing like this.
: : What phraseology have I overlooked?

: : Jon Alan Conrad

: "look up spencer on list" worked for me...

Of course, you have to know his name's "Spencer".  In the version
I played, you had to ask the policeman about Malcolm first.

I think later releases changed this?

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