Re: Inform 5.5 for Dos 386+, ASK - problem


Fri, 20 Oct 1995 03:43:31 GMT

ceforma@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Christopher E. Forman) wrote:

>The Inform manual is wrong. The "Ask:" portion of your code should read:

> Ask: if (second == 'watergate') "~Who sent you?~"; "~I don't know.~";

I'm capturing that to a file. :)

>This is the most frequently encountered error in the Inform manual (and
>the only one I personally know of). The new version promises to fix this.
>Any day, now, Graham...

Now, what exactly IS the newest version of the design manual? Mine
seems very old, and doesn't even know about some of the newer library
extensions.

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