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From: dan@idis.UUCP (Dan Strick)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: yet another curious error message
Message-ID: <235@idis.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Oct-83 14:21:04 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 14 14:21:04 1983
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This error message is produced by the game of zork if one of
the files it must open during initialization cannot be found:


I can't open "DINDX.DAT".
Suddenly a sinister, wraithlike figure appears before you
seeming to float in the air.  In a low, sorrowful voice he says,
"Alas, the very nature of the world has changed, and the dungeon
cannot be found.  All must now pass away."  Raising his oaken staff
in farewell, he fades into the spreading darkness.  In his place
appears a tastefully lettered sign reading:

                      INITIALIZATION FAILURE

The darkness becomes all encompassing, and your vision fails.