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- Welcome to the TADS (Text Adventure
- Development System) documentation in HTML.
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- These files were converted from TeX and Ami Pro format into HTML by
- N. K. Guy, tela design, as a public service for the interactive fiction
- community. Copyright with these files remains in its entirety with their
- author, Michael J. Roberts. THE READER ASSUMES FULL RISK AND
- RESPONSIBILITY FOR USE OF THESE FILES. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS TELA
- DESIGN LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, DIRECT OR INDIRECT, RESULTING FROM USE OF
- THIS DOCUMENTATION.
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- For more information on the copyright status of these files please
- consult the file "LICENCE.HTM"
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- There. Now that that quasi-legal nastiness is out of the way, we can
- move on to more fun things. These files represent the entire TADS
- documentation supplied by TADS' publisher, High Energy Software, when
- TADS was still a shareware product. Now that TADS is a freeware program,
- author Mike Roberts has made the documentation available online. These
- files are a direct HTML translation.
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- Please note that much of the translation work had to be done manually
- for aesthetic consistency and so on. As a result some conversion errors
- may have crept in along the way. If you find any problems, *please* drop
- me a line. My email address is:
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- tela@tela.bc.ca
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- The latest, and hopefully most accurate, version of these files will be
- kept online at:
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- http://www.tela.bc.ca/tela/tads-manual/
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- Note that that URL points to a version of the manual that uses curved
- (typographical) quotation marks. This archive contains a version of the
- manual that uses plain quotation marks, because many Web browsers don't
- support them. (they aren't officially part of HTML) If you prefer the
- plain version use this URL:
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- http://www.tela.bc.ca/tela/tads-manual/plain/
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- You'll also be able to find various versions of the TADS documentation
- in various formats in the IF-archive, at:
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- ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/tads/manuals/
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- That site is in Germany. If you find the connection a little slow the US
- mirror for the site is:
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- ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/doc/misc/if-archive/programming/tads/manuals/
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- and the Canadian mirror is:
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- ftp://ftp.io.org/pub/mirrors/if-archive/programming/tads/manuals/
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- Finally, I created these files on a Macintosh, which can handle
- filenames of a reasonable length. That meant I had to waste a hell of a
- lot of time and go through and change all the filename references to
- conform with the backwards and frustrating 8.3 filename restriction so
- that these files would work for DOS and Windows 3.1 users. If you find
- some references to the old filenames (longer, lowercase and ending with
- ".html" and not ".HTM") it's because I missed them. Sorry.
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- In addition to the manual tela design also maintains the TADS Page,
- which is intended to be a central index of TADS resources on the Web.
- Its URL is:
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- http://www.tela.bc.ca/tela/tads/
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- Feel free to email me with any comments or suggested links.
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- Have fun!
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- - N. K. Guy, October 29. 1996
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