Re: [Tads3] Eric Eve's Getting Started guide

["Eric Eve" <eric.eve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doeadeer3 wrote:

> It seems the archive no longer has DM3 available (unless I am not looking
> in the right place), which in my humble opinion was a BIG MISTAKE.
> Removing it. In many ways it was better than DM4 and there weren't THAT
> many changes in Inform between the two versions of the manual. But that
means
> the Inform Windows Help file (based on DM3) I really liked is also no
longer
> there. (Maybe it's where I am not looking.)

> So I've put it up on one of my ftp spaces.
> http://members.aol.com/tamecomputer/inform.hlp

> If you have a Windows machine available you can download it and see why
> I really, really, really liked it. It took a lot of work and is
> extensively cross referenced. If and when I still use Inform (looking at/
> working on my old WIPs), I still use it and have used it for years ever
> since it became available. It is a *great* ELECTRONIC reference.

> The whole file may not have been uploaded -- it may have been truncated
> due to my limited ftp space, hard to tell. If you look at it and find
> it is (or anyone else does), please let me know and I will free up some
> ftp space to make more room for it.

I just tried downloading it just now from that link just now, but I'm afraid
it gives me an error message when I try to open it, saying it's not a
Windows help file, or it's corrupted. I've just recalled, however, that the
DM4 is available in Windows help .CHM format, since I've got a copy of it in
that format which came with Imaginate; I don't know how it compare's with
the DM3 helpfile, which you seem to prefer anyway.

-- Eric