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From: neilg@fraser.sfu.ca (Neil K. Guy)
Subject: Re: TADS porting (was Porting (was Re: Archimedes))
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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1993 20:40:18 GMT
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adam@owlnet.rice.edu (Adam Justin Thornton) writes:

>Hmmmm.    My mail to hinrg.starconn.com bounced.  Anyone else??

 Did you type in the explicit address or just hit 'r' and let your
mailer use the return address? My mail bounced when I used the return
address (which wasn't hinrg.starconncomm) but worked fine when I
typed in the address.

>Is there an escape for NO space after period or colon in TADS?
>Using \-<space> I can write 2: 30, but I can't write 2:30.  Likewise,
>I can't write 2.8, only 2. 8.  If there isn't, should there be?

 Really? It works fine for me. Printing { "2:30 "; } gives me just
2:30 on the output. Try { "2\:30 "; } maybe. It's not documented but
seems to work OK. Incidentally, anyone else get the boldface text that
TADS apparently supports ( \( and \) ) to work on the Mac? I guess it
just isn't implemented yet...

 - Neil K. (n_k_guy@sfu.ca)
