I've been a player of IF for many years, and I recently stumbled upon the
still-existant field of IF-authoring. Of course, my interest was rekindled and
I downloaded Inform 5.5 (I55-386.ZIP), the libraries (VERBLIB.H, PARSER.H,
and GRAMMAR.H), and the Designer's Manual (I think it's called?).. anyway, the
manual mentions a "Hello Cruel World" program, supposedly included with
Inform, which I never found.. so to test my setup, I used the first example
program in the manual.. I copied the program exactly, quadruple-checked all
my typing. Unfortunately, when I run INFORM.EXE to compile, I get a LOOONG
list of compilation errors. Can anyone help me with them?
The current contents of my INFORM directory:
INFORM EXE 402,951 07-06-95 1:12p
READ ME 1,001 07-06-95 1:21p
BR INF 373 10-08-95 9:50p <- Blank_Room file from manual
GRAMMAR H 16,781 10-08-95 9:38p
PARSER H 119,307 10-08-95 9:42p
VERBLIB H 16,776 10-08-95 9:45p
ERRORLOG 12,831 10-09-95 9:42p
The beginning of the list of errors I get compiling the Blank_Room file:
Unix Inform 5.5 (v1502/a)
line 485: Error: Operator has too many arguments
> if (c_s Object Blank_Room "Blank Room" with description "An ...etc
"Parser", line 467: Error: No such label as "L__M"
> L__M(##Prompt)
"Parser", line 718: Error: No such action routine as "GoSub"
> results-->0 = ##Go
"Parser", line 1058: Error: No such action routine as "TakeSub"
> results-->0 = ##Take
"Parser", line 1123: Error: No such action routine as "AnswerSub"
> action=##Answer
I get the exact same list of errors using I55PC.ZIP. Can anyone PLEASE help?
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