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From: ceforma@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Christopher E. Forman)
Subject: Please help a beginner with Inform
Message-ID: <1995Jul5.033115.58685@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 03:31:15 GMT
Organization: Illinois State University
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I've got a couple questions about Inform, and I'm fairly new at this...

Whenever I compile a draft of my game and run it, the status line stops one
space away from the right side of the screen.  That is, there's a single
block of blue there.  Is there any way to fix this, or should I use a
different ZIP interpreter to run the game?  I've noticed none of the games
by Graham Nelson se to have this problem, but Odieus and a couple others do.

Second, how can I make the buffer size big enough to have a long intro, like
in Beyond Zork?  If I try to make the it too big, I run out of memory, and
Inform won't seem to let me do two print statements in a row.  Is there a
correct way to separate them that I'm not sure of?

Please e-mail replies, and thanks in advance.
