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From: joedal@dfi.aau.dk (Lars Joedal)
Subject: Re: Downloading TADS source from the if-archive.
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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 08:30:28 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?

No real problems.  Only the small problem that no text conversion is done
for text files inside a .zip archive.

>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.

Strange.  I just downloaded goto.zip to test and it unzipped without
problems.  Perhaps you are using an old version of pkunzip?  That would
certainly explain the problems, as goto.zip is packed with the new
compression format deflation (unpacking = inflating).
When I tested the archive I used Info-Zip's freeware unzip program
(distributed as unz50p1.exe on various archives).

>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.

If you don't find out about the problem by yourself then mail me and I'll
mail you the goto files.  As the author I seem the right person to do
that :-)

/Lars

PS: In case it interests anybody: I'm now really back on the usenet. I can
    both post and read posts.

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