Newsgroups: rec.arts.int-fiction
Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!newsserver2.jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!news.voicenet.com!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!crash!pzcc.bitenet!news
From: bbarnett@tfb.com (Bruce Barnett)
Subject: Re: Zip interpreter question
Organization: CTS Network Services (CTSNET), San Diego, CA
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 1995 06:05:58 GMT
Message-ID: <DCyCxo.H7s@crash.cts.com>
X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent v0.46
References: (none) <807750401snz@wing-it.demon.co.uk>
Sender: news@crash.cts.com (news subsystem)
Nntp-Posting-Host: node3.tfb.com
Lines: 35

Ian Smith <Ian@wing-it.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Greetings All,

>	This is a plea to anyone with more C experience than me (which includes 
>almost all of you...)

>	I play my LToI games on my Atari Portfolio palmtop pc.  No big shakes 
>there.  This is made possible because the LToI setup allows you to disable the 
>status line.  Then I found the archive, and a bunch of z5 games.  Wah hey, I 
>thought, more fun.  So, I transferred advent.z5 over, and realised that the 
>port doesn't work with status lines.  Drat.

>	This is the plea.  Can anyone provide a version of zip which has the 
>status line disabled ?  Please.  I tried remming out all the references to it 
>in screen.c, but when I tried to compile it there was a totally different error 
>in another module.  Being the big girls blouse that I am, I haven't a clue what 
>to do with it.

>	Thanx for reading through this blurb, and I wait with breath firmly 
>baited for some wonderful person to help me.

>	Take care, Ian

>-- 
>Ian Smith             | Eight years ago I started at the bottom...|
>Wing It Productions   | and I _like_ it here.                     |
>+44131 343 3084       |                                           |
>------------------------------------------------------------------|
I don't think this is an interpreter question.  The Inform compiler
library has a routine, DrawStatusLine that does it.  Using Inform, I
just REPLACEd DrawStatusLine with another routine with nothing in it.

Bruce Barnett

