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From: aa382@Freenet.carleton.ca (Marc Sira)
Subject: Re: Announcement: INFORM 
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References: <1993May11.031227.29464@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1993May9.182053.25691@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 12 May 1993 02:45:26 GMT
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In a previous article, bigmac@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mark Christopher Macsurak) says:

>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
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>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?

You FTP a binary file by typing "binary" or "image", then getting the file as
usual. That's not what the "not a plain file" message means, though; you
tried to retrieve a directory. Try "cd inform". ;)

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