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To:    All Infocommies
From:  Dept. of Little Known ZorkFacts
Re:    Save money

The STORY.COM program that comes with Infocom's Zork Trilogy can apparently
be used with ANY datafile from ANY Infocom game.  I.e., STORY is Infocom's 
Universal Game Interpreter.

For example, if you bought the Zork Trilogy for IBM PC, and you happen to
have several other games in CP/M format, just use UNIFORM (etc.) to transfer
your .DAT files (but not the .COM files) over to IBM diskettes.

Then use STORY to run any and all of the games you already own, using the
/g parameter to name the appropriate data file!

Examples:  story /ghitchhik.dat
           story /ginfidel.dat
           story /w /gzork3.dat

The other parameters (such as /w) are documented in your Zork Trilogy game
manual.