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[Macavity]

Here's mine:

[Howdareyou]

Macavity, have you invented some of those commands?

You also would need a "grope:" before !hndshk, and put spaces around your instances of ">".

I like what you were setting out to achieve with the "!transmit trust" stuff, but I don't know if PF will be able to understand your parentheses.

[Macavity]

Actually, the !set commands in the local: setting are derived from the old MS-DOS SET command, which was used to load environment variables (and, in some iterations of the Win9x+ operating systems, still is).

Examples would be:

SET PATH=C:\DOS (sets the PATH variable for the command interpreter, which tells it where to look for various command files such as DIR, CHDIR, and EDIT, to name a few)

SET S_HOST=CASTLE (This is an old Raptor: Call Of The Shadows cheat string. It gives you a buttload of starting cash, one of each weapon and special item - such as the CBU-22 Guillotine mega-bomb and the SA17 Ares phase shield - and makes you invulnerable. Don't know if it works witht he newer versions, though.)

SET BLASTER=IRQ:5 DMA:220 MID:330h VOL:050 (This was used by the old Sound Blaster/SB Pro/SB 16/SB AWE32 sound cards made by Creative Labs, which tells the drivers that the card's been assigned Interrupt Reqest code 5, that it's DMA port - whatever the hell that is - is 220, and that its MIDI address is 330h. Oh, and it sets the volume to 50.)

As for not using grope: !probe, I know exactly what I'm looking for, so net: !seek should work just fine.

[Mazian]

[Macavity]

[Mazian]

[Macavity]

[Mazian]

[Macavity]

[Karmic]

[META]

It is highly unlikely that the PMs wrote up any sort of command interpreter, which makes the Flea-speak a subjective, pseudo-code type language. It's a story telling device, not a real programming language.

If anything is going to come from these submissions, it's most likely that conforming to some hypothesized syntax isn't as important as the meaning a human reader would get from it.

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BTW, I personally think the language looks and behaves more like PROLOG. Which makes a kind of sense, it's a language used in many introductory level AI classes. (It was in mine, anyway).

[Macavity]

[Karmic]

My point was simply this: Flea-speak is a fictional language... arguing about the rules of the language probably won't improve the chances of a response email having an effect on the game.

Sheesh.

[Macavity]

[Howdareyou]

Of course, this whole discussion is moot now, considering that the SP has been freed without any input from the e-mail angle. Heh, and I was beginning to enjoy writing in pidgin english. Oh well, back to grammar.