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From: erkyrath+@cmu.edu (Andrew C. Plotkin)
Subject: Re: Planetfall 880531 bug??
Date: 28 Mar 1996 12:43:40 +0000
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bshields@netcom.com (Shields) writes:
> George Caswell (timbuktu@the-eye.res.wpi.edu) wrote:
> :    Hi...  Is it just me, or does the Planetfall included with LTOI 1 CD 
> : (the version 5 copy in the mac directory) have a really annoying 
> : parsing/comprehension problem?  it's serial number 880531, it's version 5 
> : with hints...  the problem is, when you go to the elevator, activate it, 
> : and "press the down button" it says "pressing down the little button has 
> : no effect"...  I've tried the version 3 copy in the PC directory, that 
> : worked fine...  I'd prefer to continue using the version 5 copy tho..  
> : does anyone know if there's a way to push the down button without pushing 
> : down the button??

Try "push" instead of "press", or vice versa. I think I once ran into
this, and it turned out I was suffering from the delusion that those
two verbs were synonyms.

--Z

"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves..."
