abbreviations

Spock's Guide to Useful Abbreviations.

Life on Turf can be pretty fast-paced, and as such all commands can  
be abbreviated, unless this abbreviation conflicts with other  
commands.

'Rem sword' will not remove a sword, but try to remote to a character  
named 'sword'.

Useful abbreviations:

cast     -\> c  ('c he' will cause you to cast the 'heal' spell on yourself.)
home     -\> h
visit    -\> v 
north    -\> n  (and likewise all other directions, including ne, se etc.)
kill     -\> k
get      -\> g
exits    -\> ex
look     -\> l
examine  -\> exa
consider -\> con
compare  -\> comp

Obviously these are not all of the abbreviations of commands, and you  
can experiment with the ones that are most useful to you.

Names of objects, players, and mobiles can also be abbreviated.  For  
example, if you wanted to consider the mobile known as the 'librarian'
you could type: 'con lib'.

However, since everything can be abbreviated, sometimes the game  
gets confused.  For instance, if I wanted to read a sign, but I was  
also wearing a signet ring, I couldn't just type 'look at sign', because  
then I would be looking at my signet ring.  Therefore, you can end  
words which are complete with an $, to signify that that is all there  
is of the word.

Example: 'look sign$' looks at a sign, and not my signet ring.

Names of mobiles and objects in multiplicity can also be differentiated
with a sort of shorthand.

If you are in a room with 2 golems, and you want to look at the first golem,
you could type: 'l golem', but to look at the second golem you would type:
'l 2.golem'.  This system can be used with any command to differentiate
between mobiles.

Similarly, if I were wearing two Ruby Rings, and wanted to remove  
only one of them, I could alternately type: 'remove ring' or 'remove 2.ring'.

So now you have lots of pot-pies, and want to put them all in a bag.  That can
be accomplished by typing 'put all.pie bag'.