JZIP(6)

✨ jzip — the whole vibe ✨

okay bestie, welcome to jzip(6), aka John's Z-code Interpreter Program, and yes the manual name is right there in the title so we're already slaying 🎀 this is the page where you learn how to run your lil Infocom dreams.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

jzip — execute Infocom v1-5 and Inform v1-5 & v8 game files 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

jzip [ options ] z-file-name

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

jzip invokes the Z-code Interpreter. that's it, that's the whole thing, and honestly? iconic. 👑

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💅 REQUIREMENTS 💅

jzip will run under most (if not all) flavors of Unix, and when we say most we mean it fr fr. the list is giving versatility:

• AIX
• Solaris
• SunOS
• HP/UX
• Linux
• Free/NetBSD
• IRIX
• NeXT Mach
• DEC OSF/1
• and others 🌈

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🎀 EDITING 🎀

JZip now supports arrowkey editing in UNIX. no cap, you get real keys now:

• Up / Down — selects the previous / next command in history 🧚
• Left / Right — moves the cursor over the line.
• Backspace — deletes
• Typing — inserts under the cursor

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -l n — lines in display
• -c n — columns in display
• -r n — text right margin (default = 1)
• -t n — text top margin (default = 0)
• -v — display version information
• -m — monochrome mode
• -y — set Tandy bit
• -s n — zmachine strict level, from 0 (none), 1 (report once, recommended) to 3.

bestie the -s one: level 1 is the recommended setting, it reports once. level 0 is none. it goes up to 3. pick your fighter 🫶

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🌟 ENVIRONMENT 🌟

jzip looks for the environment variable INFOCOM_PATH and will use the path found there to look for the story file specified on the command line if the story file cannot be found in the current directory.

so basically: current directory first, then INFOCOM_PATH. she's thorough. 💜

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👑 CREDITS 👑

jzip is written and maintained by John Holder (j-holder@home.com), based on the ZIP v2.0 sources by Mark Howell and Olaf 'Olsen' Barthel. legends only, we love a lineage 🥹

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🌈 AVAILABILITY 🌈

the most recent version of jzip can be downloaded from one of:

• http://www.jzip.sourceforge.net/
• ftp://ifarchive.org/infocom/interpreters/zip/

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🍓 FILES 🍓

• /usr/games/jzip — The Z-Code Interpreter Program
• /usr/lib/games/zfiles — Recommended location for Zcode files

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💀 RELATED USENET NEWSGROUPS 💀

Interactive Fiction (IF) authors should check out rec.arts.int-fiction, and IF players should check out rec.games.int-fiction.

iykyk 😭 go find your people

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate 💅 the version is 2.1, it's the JZIP(6) manual, and we're done here — go run some Z-code 🦋✨