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<ul class="crumbs"><li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li><li><b>A note about Inform 6</b></li></ul></div>
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<p class="commentary firstcommentary"><a id="SP1" class="paragraph-anchor"></a><b>§1. </b>The Inform system of today sometimes uses the Inform system of yesteryear,
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<span class="extract"><span class="extract-syntax">inform6</span></span>, as a final stage of compilation, a stage largely invisible to end
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users of the Inform apps. See <a href="compiler.html" class="internal">compiler</a> for a diagram of how the tools
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<p class="commentary">Inform 6 is a C-like language designed to be compiled to the specialist Z-machine
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or Glulx virtual machines, which in turn were designed for interactive fiction.
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The Inform 7 repository at Github contains a copy of the most recent stable
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release of the Inform 6 compiler, but this is only a copy.
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<p class="commentary">The Inform 6 compiler repository is here:
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<ul class="items"><li>● <a href="https://github.com/DavidKinder/Inform6" class="external">https://github.com/DavidKinder/Inform6</a>
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<p class="commentary">Note that this is a straight-up C program, and not a literate program needing
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<a href="../../inweb/docs/index.html" class="internal">inweb</a> to compile.
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<p class="commentary firstcommentary"><a id="SP2" class="paragraph-anchor"></a><b>§2. </b>The I7 repository does not contain the Inform 6 "Designer's Manual 4th Edition",
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the "DM4", or the Inform 6 Technical Manual, for which see:
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<ul class="items"><li>● <a href="https://www.inform-fiction.org/manual/html/contents.html" class="external">https://www.inform-fiction.org/manual/html/contents.html</a>
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</li><li>● <a href="https://www.inform-fiction.org/source/tm/index.html" class="external">https://www.inform-fiction.org/source/tm/index.html</a>
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<p class="commentary">The I7 repository also does not contain the Inform 6 library, which is not used
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by Inform 7: but see —
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<ul class="items"><li>● <a href="https://gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/inform6lib" class="external">https://gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/inform6lib</a>
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<p class="commentary firstcommentary"><a id="SP3" class="paragraph-anchor"></a><b>§3. </b>However, the I7 repository does contain a version of Andrew Plotkin's test suite
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for the I6 compiler:
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<ul class="items"><li>● <a href="https://github.com/erkyrath/Inform6-Testing" class="external">https://github.com/erkyrath/Inform6-Testing</a>
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<p class="commentary">ported to use <a href="../../intest/docs/index.html" class="internal">intest</a> rather than the Python script originally supplied. So
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if you've already built the Inform 7 tool chain, and are already using intest
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to test <a href="inform7/index.html" class="internal">inform7</a> and the others, then you can run this suite against the
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included copy of the I6 compiler as well.
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