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From: kjfair@midway.uchicago.edu (Kenneth Fair)
Subject: Re: Inform on the Mac.
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In article <3288CFDE.6F61@fred.aurora.edu>, chidder@fred.aurora.edu wrote:

>Would someone please post a complete, detailed, step-by step
>set of instructions for using Inform 6.03 on the Mac. I have so far
>Downloaded and Unstuffed Inform 6.03, and all the libarires and put them
>in a single folder on my disc.
>  In that same folder(necessary becasue Inform wont let you compile a 
>program on another disk - GRR!!!) I have two .inf files. Shopping1.inf,
>and shopping2.inf.  Shopping1.inf is compilible on the generic pc
>veriosn of inform, yet generates around 700 errors on the mac.(
>'Expected command or comment but found' <whatever>' errors'
>Shopping2.inf is the version that is too big for my 640k machine
>to handle.  Needless to say, that doesnt compile either.

I think you may be having the same problem as I am having.  I've gotten
the libraries to compile into the appropriate modules.  However, I am now
having problems compiling my source code which was fine under v5.5.

The errors are typically of the form "Expected comment or command but 
found _____", where _____ *is* a command.  However, the Ruins.inf
example on Graham's web page compiled without errors.  I wonder if
my program might be violating some order for the Parser, Grammar, and
Verblib files that was overlooked by the v5.5 compiler but is required
by the v6 compiler.

Part of the problem seems to be in the linklpa.h and linklv.h files.

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