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Subject: Re:  ZTools a set of utilities for Infocom Game datafiles.
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> 
> Thanks for your post to comp.sys.amiga.announce.  Before I put it
> up, I'd like a little more information.
> 
> Anyway, just fill in the gaps and send it in again.

Ok, here it goes:

> 
 TITLE
 
     ztools
 
 VERSION
 
     1.0.0 - First public release.
 
 
 DESCRIPTION
 
     ZTools is an Amiga port of the IBM version of the "Infocom Toolkit",
     a neat collection of utilities and documents for manipulating
     (and investigating!) the data files that come with the text
     adventure games from Infocom, Inc. 
 
     Disassembling the file into the ZIL pseudo-assembly language format, 
     showing the vocabulary that the game knows, learning about hidden
     variables and debug modes, showing the different properties that the
     games objects have, verifying that the game data file is uncorrupt, 
     are just some of the things that can be done with these tools.

 HOST NAME
 
     amiga.physik.unizh.ch or any other aminet site.
     wuarchive.wustl.edu
 
 DIRECTORY
 
     /amiga/game/misc              -- on aminet
     /systems/amiga/incoming/games -- on wuarchive
     /systems/amiga/games/util     -- on wuarchive (final resting place)

 FILE NAME
 
     ztools.lha
 
 DISTRIBUTABILITY
 
     Freely distributable, no fee of any kind is requestd.