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From: gross@math.utah.edu (Fletcher Gross)
Subject: Re: Getting CURSES for the Mac.
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Date: Thu, 20 May 1993 04:08:14 GMT
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In article <1993May19.201957.21484@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gdr11@cl.cam.ac.uk (Gareth Rees) writes:

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   Keywords: ftp download curses infocom graham nelson infotask compiler c 
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   In article <1993May19.112319.3048@leland.Stanford.EDU>, bigmac@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mark Christopher Macsurak) writes:
   |> Hello, I would really like to get CURSES, the new work by Graham Nelson which 
   |> as far as I've heard, is a lot like Infocom.
   |> 
   |> The only problem is... I don't know how to get it! I have a Mac, and I was 
   |> hoping if anyone figured out how to get CURSES working on a Mac, if they could
   |> let me know how they did it or maybe even send it to me. I know how to ftp,
   |> and I've dowloaded the InfoTaskForce program but I believe there's some Mac
   |> patch for it or something, even though it seems to run okay.

   In the directory if-archive/infocom/interpreters/itf on ftp.gmd.de there is a
   file mac.InfoTaskForce.bin which is claimed to be 'Mac executable, ported by 
   Ralf Schlatterbeck'.  Does this not work?

   -- 
   Gareth Rees <gdr11@phx.cam.ac.uk>

I downloaded the above mentioned Mac executable and it does indeed
work with CURSES. Just be sure that the TYPE of the CURSES is set to
TEXT. (If you take one of the Infocom games for the Mac and change
their type from APPL to TEXT, then the InfoTaskForce can be used to
run those games too. Of course, that is a silly thing to do since they
can more easily be run as applications.)

Fletcher Gross
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