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From: kjfair@midway.uchicago.edu (Kenneth Fair)
Subject: Re: [Inform] Newbie Mac questions
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Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 22:33:24 GMT
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In article <4mlrua$ft0@wanda.phl.pond.com>, russotto@wanda.phl.pond.com
(Matthew T. Russotto) wrote:

>In article <4ml3jd$nau@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,
>RobRachel <robrachel@aol.com> wrote:
>}I've just rediscovered IF games and discovered Inform. But I'm stuck on
>}Inform on the most basic of levels.
>}
>}I've downloaded Inform 68K v 2.12 (Mac, non-PowerMac), the three libraries
>}(which I've renamed without the .h), the shell, and several example games
>}(Alice, Balances, etc.) Problem is, I can't even get these games to
>}compile. I open v 2.12, select Shell, and the compiles spits out a bunch
>}of errors in the libraries, eventually quiting due to the number of
>}errors.
>
>You need to convert the linefeeds in those files to carriage returns.
>I use a little homegrown drag-n-drop utility to do it.

BBEdit Lite will also do this for you.  Just open the file, select the
little popup menu that has "None...Unix...Macintosh" on it, and make
sure there's a little bullet by Macintosh.

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