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From: jtb@eisx.UUCP (J. Burgess)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Unix Adventure, Part II
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Date: Tue, 14-Feb-84 16:03:18 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 14 16:03:18 1984
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The article awhile ago about the Zork Parser for UNIX
could be the first of a series.  Here's part 2:

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 .
 .
A disembodied voice says: "You have mail."
You are in /usr/src.
$ open mailbox
There are 5 letters here:
  1  from frank dated Feb  2, 1984 about netnews
  2       sally       Feb 14, 1984       Valentine's Day
  3 ...

read Sally's letter
 ...
(censored)
 ...
save it in love-letter
A new file is created, called "/usr/jtb/love-letter".  It has 23 lines.
read 1
 ...
(text of letter from Frank)
 ...
throw it out
Frank's letter disappears in a burst of bits.
close mailbox
You left 4 letters there.

You are in /usr/src.
$ up
You are in /usr.
$ up
You are in /.
$ go home
You are in /usr/jtb.
$ look
There are several files here:
   dead.letter
   emacs0
   love-letter
   mbox
Two exits are marked: bin and src. You can also go up.
$ examine emacs0
It appears to be a rather large file, perhaps a C program.
You own it, so I gather that you left it here when you were
killed in a previous life.
$ ( Ed: I realize that that borders on artificial intelligence,
    but so what.)
$  ... A small dwarf sneaks up behind you and cuts the phone-li...

Would anyone else care to continue the sage?

John Burgess
AT&T Information Systems Laboratories
 (various places)!eisx!jtb