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From: mythago@agora.rdrop.com (Laurel Halbany)
Subject: Re: Need help playing Inform games
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Candace Krepel (ckrepel@post.its.mcw.edu) wrote:

> Netscape doesn"t work for downloading Inform games.  We tried it...got the
> same error message.  Went back and ftp'ed it (after first typing "I" for
> binary) and the game worked fine.

I've downloaded plenty of Inform games with Netscape. It displays
the binary data funny, but you need to let it load the whole
document (until it says "Document Done"), then go to the file
menu and use the "Save As" command.

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