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From: svanegmo@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Stephen van Egmond)
Subject: Re: Three Questions
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In article <3266CE42.4507@uwin.com>, Crash Override  <fcollier@uwin.com> wrote:
>First of all, Where is a place via www, http, or ftp that I can gat lots
>of world builder adventure games like zooney, minotaurian, ect.

Dunno.

>My second question is, how do you download the Inform and The TADS files
>using Netscape Navagator 3.0. Because whenever I try to download
>any of them, a bunch of wierd and garbled text appears in the window.
>Also, I am using a macintosh, so it might be diffrent then from other
>computers.
> Third, whenever I do goto a file, say, Jigsaw.z5 or whatever,
>how do I save it so my MAXZip, TADS, or my Inform compiler can read
>them? Also, as I said before, when ever I click on a link, well you
>know, lots of wierd and garbeld text. Well, if anyone can help me, I
>would Appreciate it. Thanks

You need to learn how to use Netscape, and Netscape needs to learn a few 
things.

Netscape needs to learn how to recognize a binary file, and save it to 
disk when you download it instead.

The way it works around the problem is by having you, the user, hold down 
SHIFT when you click on a file to save it to disk instead.

The alternative is to click that option in the menu "save to disk" in the 
menu that puts Netscape into this mode where any links you hit will get 
saved to disk.

The specification for URLs call for a ";type=binary" thing which will 
indicate that the file should not be rendered.  Lynx supports it.  Guess 
which commercial browser doesn't.

>P.S. Where do I get TIME from in the IF archive, whats the name of the
>file?

Hey, that's four.

Look in the incoming/ directory, or eventually, under games/infocom.  It 
might be there already.



