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From: neilg@kits.sfu.ca (Neil K. Guy)
Subject: Re: Downloading TADS source from the if-archive.
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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 19:28:25 GMT
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jnoble@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au (Jason Noble) writes:

>Regarding the TADS programming examples available from ftp.gmd.de, in the
>directory if-archive/programming/TADS/examples, has anyone else had trouble
>with a few of them?  I downloaded almost all of them recently, and they were
>quite handy, but some of them failed to pkunzip properly.  Many of them are
>in ASCII form, and they downloaded OK, but the .zip ones (yes, I had type
>set to BIN) generally don't unzip at all.  Some do, and some don't, as I
>remember.  I think the problems were with goto.t and water.t.  If anyone
>could explain the problem, or better yet, mail me those two routines and any
>others you have lying around, I'd be very grateful.

 I've successfully unzipped both files using a Mac implementation of
zip, a UNIX implementation of zip and a Windows implementation of zip;
no problems! You may need to use a more recent version of zip on your
machine to inflate the files properly - I think very old versions of
PkZip may have problems.

 As for Mike Roberts and email, I'd use the Internet High-Energy
Software address and be patient - he's not a big company, he's just
him! (well and Steve McAdams, but Mike does the tech support questions
it seems)

 - Neil K. (n_k_guy@sfu.ca)
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