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From: cstringe@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu (Chuck Stringer)
Subject: Re: Trouble with TADS
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Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1993 14:03:53 GMT
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cstringe@indiana.edu 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?
| 
| Thanks,
| 
| Chuck Stringer
| cstringe@indiana.edu 
| 

Fixed! I got the following note from Micheal Roberts:

>I'm pretty sure you've encountered a weird problem in the Mac version,
>which is that the compiler insists on adding ".t" to the filename if
>there's not a period in it.  So, if you call your file "Two room
>demo",
>the compiler tries to open "Two room demo.t".  Try renaming your file
>to include at least one period somewhere in its name, and that should
>clear up the problem.  Sorry about the problem!
>
>--
>Mike Roberts                               mroberts@hinrg.starconn.com
>High Energy Software                       415 493 2430 (Voice)
>PO Box 50422, Palo Alto, CA 94303          415 493 2420 (BBS)
>
