AGT Programming (3) - Make X the abbreviation of EXAMINE

                       by Bev Truter

If you're wondering what happened to (1) and (2) in this AGT
Programming series, see Sue's articles on the same subject in
SynTax issues #21 and #23.

Everyone's favourite complaint about AGT games seems to be the use
of "ex" as an abbreviation for "examine"; where most other
gamewriting systems automatically use the abbreviation "x". Well,
here's how to change that annoying EX feature to X instead, with
the minimum of fuss.

In your .DAT file, usually near the top, resides your list of
existing AGT verbs (with your own particular synonyms added) and
dummy verbs, which you've created for your game. Simply add to
this list the AGT verb EXAMINE, with X as a synonym for it, and
voila! No more complaints from the players of your game. Your VERB
list might look something like this:

  VERB
  PUT            INSERT
  THROW          HURL TOSS
  EXAMINE        X
  DUMMY_VERB1    JUMP LEAP
  DUMMY_VERB2    KISS HUG CUDDLE
  etc. etc. etc.     ; No, not part of this list!
  END_VERB










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