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From: cstringe@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu (Chuck Stringer)
Subject: Re: Trouble with TADS
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Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1993 19:11:42 GMT
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neilg@kits.sfu.ca (Neil K. Guy) writes:
| cstringe@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu (Chuck Stringer) writes:
| 
| >I starting my first attempt at a game and can't even get TADS to
| >compile the first test game that they supply. Not an auspicious start.
| >I'm running version 2.1.1 on a Mac llci and everytime I try to compile
| >something I get a TADS-1501 error, error opening file. I'm using Alpha
| >as the text editor. There wasn't a list of errors in the files I got
| >from ftp.gmd.de and I tried writing to the address supplied in the
| >docs, but they didn't reply. Any ideas?
| 
|  Have you checked the filepaths? The compiler loads in the file to
| compile, the directory in which all other files are located and the
| error message file from disk. You need to specify the filepath for
| each one, and if one is wrong then you get an error saying it couldn't
| find a file. This might be it.
| 
|  - Neil K.

The filepaths are correct as far as I can tell. The only thing that
seems odd is that there is no such file tadsswap.dat which is shown in
the compiler window. 

