Tidying up here and there.

diff --git a/PACKAGING b/PACKAGING
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-I heartily encourage people to create packages to make it easier for less
-computer-savvy people to use Frotz.  However, I do have a few rules on
-this.
-
-1.  Email me if you wish to put Unix Frotz into something like a .deb,
-    .rpm, Slackware package, the NetBSD pkgsrc tree, FreeBSD's ports
-    tree, or anything like that.  When you do so I can note that on the
-    Unix Frotz webpage at http://www.cs.csubak.edu/~dgriffi/proj/frotz.
-
-2.  DO NOT have auto-install programs or scripts grab files from that
-    page.  The Interactive Fiction Archive at http://www.ifarchive.org
-    has mirrors around the world for that sort of thing.
-
-3.  If you distribute a patched version, SEND ME THE PATCHES.  If you
-    don't tell me what bugs you've found and fixed, I can't very well fix
-    those bugs in the main codebase for all the other users of Frotz.
-    Patches that simply change around options in the Makefile obviously
-    don't apply.
-

diff --git a/PORTING b/PORTING
index 0a5c7a91d67b46e0abf81d9ddcb9185a5d50b61f..5a34aefe441ff6f82bc1e3305cd6c5759d9ae2eb 100644 (file)
--- a/PORTING
+++ b/PORTING
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ Frotz might work well with these platforms:
 -------------------------------------------
 
 Apple IIgs.
-I'm fairly sure that with its greater memory capacity than the ealier
+I'm fairly sure that with its greater memory capacity than the earlier
 members of the Apple II family, at least text-mode Frotz should be
 doable.  Perhaps even graphics and sound could be done.
 

diff --git a/README b/README
index 2c96cbbddee4fe3df69fb921e997e735be4c1606..6dc62e61b48c0fc05c8cd2f237dc71939a58516c 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ Reference code and Unix port currently maintained by David Griffith.
 - Old-style sound support through OSS driver.
 - Config files.
 - Configurable error checking.
-- Quetzal save file format.
 - Distributed under the GNU Public License.
 
 

diff --git a/README.1st b/README.1st
index cce6f164fcb4925296b9547fd3151a02883e2eab..ced93771b7d9bf029effcf5b68592337c7db129b 100644 (file)
--- a/README.1st
+++ b/README.1st
@@ -11,13 +11,10 @@ HOW_TO_PLAY How to play Interactive Fiction.
 INSTALL                How to build and install Frotz.
 Makefile       The Makefile (the INSTALL file tells you about this).
 Makefile.tc    Makefile for building Frotz for DOS.
-PACKAGING      Putting Frotz into a binary package or port tree.
 PORTING                Notes about porting Frotz to new machines and operating systems.
 README         An overview of Frotz.
 README.1st     This file.
-SPEECH         Notes about speech synthesis and voice-recognition in Frotz.
 TODO           Stuff to do in no particular order.
-frotz.lsm      An LSM file for Frotz.
 
 doc/           Manpages and sample config files.
 src/           Source code to Frotz.

diff --git a/SPEECH b/SPEECH
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-===============================================
------------------------------------------------
-|  Speech synthesis and recognition in Frotz  |
------------------------------------------------
-===============================================
-
-This is highly-experimental code being commissioned by a presently
-undisclosed party.  When complete, Frotz (at least for Linux and NetBSD)
-will speak its output and accept voice for input.  The libraries being
-used to do this are Flite and Sphinx2.  Public release in any meaningful
-way is on hold until the project is complete and I have been paid.  In
-case you're wondering, this voice-enabled version of Frotz will appear
-as another make target in the Unix Frotz tarball.
-
-
-Flite (http://cmuflite.org/) is a small run-time speech synthesis engine
-created by Carnegie Mellon University around 1999.  It's intended as a
-lightweight substitute for University of Edinburgh's Festival Speech
-Synthesis System and CMU's Festbox project.  Flite is somewhat based on
-Festival, but requires neither of those systems to compile and run.  At
-first I wanted to use Festival for voice output, but this quickly became
-impractical for various reasons (like the fact it only outputs to NAS).
-
-
-Sphinx2 (http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx/) is also from Carnagie
-Mellon.  It is unique among voice-recognition schemes with which most
-people are familiar in that it doesn't need to be trained.  That's
-right.  Joe Blow can walk in off the street, talk to a program using
-Sphinx, and be understood.  The tradeoff is that the programmer must
-know beforehand what words are to be recognized.  This makes it
-difficult, if not impossible for voice-input to be used for arbitrary
-games.  The game's dictionary must be parsed and a pronunciation guide
-made.  This must be done manually because of the way the Z-machine
-recognizes words.  Because it only cares about the first six letters, a
-real person must check for words longer than six letters, figure out
-what the rest of the letters are, and how the words should be
-pronounced.  This is the core of the problem of supporting arbitrary
-games.  A computer cannot "know" what a story is about in order to guess
-what the remaining letters are.
-
-You've probably encountered programs that do voice recognition like
-Sphinx does without realizing it.  The most common example I can think
-of is how many locales handle collect calls.  You get a phone call and
-an obviously recorded voice says something like the following:
-
-       You have a collect call from <caller speaks name>.
-       To accept the charges, please say "yes".
-
-That program is expecting to hear "yes" and is configured with several
-ways that "yes" might be constructed.  For good measure, "yeah", "yep",
-"yup", "uh-huh", "alright", "okay", and other affirmatives are probably
-programmed in there too. I don't know.  I haven't checked.