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Detailed information is available within the game, so that this file does
not need to be a complete set of instructions, or description of Mah Jongg.

The tiles have been carefully copied from an authentic Asian bone-and-bamboo
set, and not from one of the plastic sets mass-produced in the East for
export to the West.  They do not, therefore, include explanatory English
markings.  However, full information about the tiles can be reached from
inside the game.

The play is carried forward almost entirely by use of the SELECT button
on the mouse.

The information pages are available as the game begins, but also at any 
time during the course of the game  -  by pressing together the two 
keys I-N.

You can decide that play shall end at the conclusion of the current hand,
by pressing together the two keys E-N.

The other signal you may wish to give is A-U, which arranges for the
open hand to be played automatically.  This is reversed by pressing H-U,
to re-establish human control.

The computer-controlled players have Chinese names in pin-yin script using
letters of the roman alphabet.  Their given names come from the two lists    
below.  Note: "X" and "Q" are pronounced, respectively, as "sh" and "ch".

                              Male Given Names
    Hai-yang      Jian-ting         Wei-xun       Dong-cen    Ju-chuo
    Gong-heng    Jin-an             Yun-hun      Xun-di         Ji-dao
    Jian-tang      Guang-yuan    Qing-zeng    Shi-fan        Zang-bao
    Yu-hao          Zhao-jie          Mao-zhi       Shi-duo       Fa-yu
    Ging-hong     Juan-yang       Zang-hu      Huan-shu    Bin-wen
    Sai-dao         Yan-biao          Li-jia          Shou-fu       Da-yu

                             Female Given Names
    Cha-lian      Shan-tang      La-die      Jing-bao     Xin-niu
    Fang-ying    Mu-an           Yi-fang     Ji-pei          Xu-jie
    Tan-ping      Zhi-zhuang    Lu-xin      Cai-tang      Xiu-xian
    Ba-zhi          Fu-yun          Jia-qie     Xi-di            Ya-zhu
    Yuan-ying    Cen-ling        Qiao-fu    Xiao-hong    Lan-qi
    Wei-qing      Wu-dong      Ga-xi        Fen-hua       Xi-bao

These names were kindly supplied by Michael and Jenny Wan proprietors of the 
China City Restaurant, Te Anau, New Zealand.   

This presentation of Mah Jongg has been programmed on an Acorn RiscPC700
by Evan R Lewis, Dunedin, New Zealand, with graphics by Jonathan R Lewis.  
This application has been adapted from earlier versions which ran on Acorn
Archimedes A3000 and BBC Master128 machines since 1987.  It can be regarded
as being in the public domain, and may be freely copied.

                        erlewis@ihug.co.nz