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Title: Navigation page for Inform 6
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Author: Graham Nelson
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@ The Inform system of today sometimes uses the Inform system of yesteryear,
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|inform6|, as a final stage of compilation, a stage largely invisible to end
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users of the Inform apps. See //structure// for a diagram of how the tools
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are combined in use.
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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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The Inform 6 compiler repository is here:
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(*) https://github.com/DavidKinder/Inform6
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Note that this is a straight-up C program, and not a literate program needing
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//inweb// to compile.
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@ 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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(*) https://www.inform-fiction.org/manual/html/contents.html
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(*) https://www.inform-fiction.org/source/tm/index.html
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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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(*) https://gitlab.com/DavidGriffith/inform6lib
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@ 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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(*) https://github.com/erkyrath/Inform6-Testing
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ported to use //intest// 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 //inform7// 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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