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From: bigmac@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mark Christopher Macsurak)
Subject: Re: Announcement: INFORM 
Message-ID: <1993May11.031227.29464@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Summary: How do you download these files which are not plain text?
Keywords: inform ftp download help 
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Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
References: <1993May9.182053.25691@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 11 May 93 03:12:27 GMT
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In article <1993May9.182053.25691@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gan10@phx.cam.ac.uk writes:
> 
>Inform may be found in the if-archive at ftp.gmd.de:
> 
>  if-archive/infocom/compilers/inform
> 
>contains all the Inform files, including a copy of "Curses".  See the Index
>file there.  There is also a copy of "Curses" in if-archive/games/infocom.
>Remember that story files must be FTP'd in binary, not ASCII, mode.
> 
>Graham Nelson
>Oxford University, UK
><gan10@phx.cam.ac.uk>

Does anyone know how to FTP binary files? I tried to "get inform" but it said
that it's not a plain file. Will I be able to use these on my Mac?

						- bigmac@leland.stanford.edu


