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<font face="Arial" size="2" color="#000000">GiveToAskFor provides, in a somewhat limited way, the means to translate
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<b>&gt;bob, give me the gold



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<b>&gt;ask bob for the gold



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It does this by defining a StringPreparser that simply looks for input of the form "X, GIVE ME Y" and transforms it into "ASK X FOR Y". This
may  have odd effects if Y is not simply the name of an object or topic that can occur in an ASK FOR command. For example, if the player typed:



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<b>&gt;bob, give me the coin, then go north</b>



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The input would be translated into



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<b>&gt;ask bob for the coin, then go north



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</b>Which would not mean the same thing. The moral is that the mechanism this module employs is somewhat fragile, and should be used only at your
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To use GiveToAskFor simply include GiveToAskFor.t in the list of source files in your project makefile.



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