From the NannyMUD documentation
2001-02-07
NAME
display_look - Print the description of an object and its contents.LOCATION
/obj/supportSYNTAX
varargs void display_look(object ob, int flag, object target)DESCRIPTION
Displays the description of the object ob and its contents to a player. If the target argument is supplied, the information is printed to that object, otherwise to this_player(). By setting flag to 1, you can force the long desc of the object to be printed. If not, the targets brief toggle will determine if the long or the short description is printed. The short description of every item in ob will also be printed, unless query_contents() in ob returns non-zero.EXAMPLE
SEE ALSO
query_contents in lfun/room/query_contents