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From: kjfair@midway.uchicago.edu (Kenneth Fair)
Subject: Re: IFDropFile 2.2 (Mac utility)
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In article <erkyrathE1vG7w.41p@netcom.com>, erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew
Plotkin) wrote:

>I have uploaded IFDropFile 2.2 to ftp.gmd.de. This is a Mac app which you 
>can drag/drop IF game files to; it sets the type and creator to align 
>with your favorite interpreter. It understands TADS and Z-code files. 
>
>This is useful if you download game files, as we so often do, or if you 
>want to change a bunch of files to a different interpreter.
>
>By double-clicking the app, you get a preferences dialog which gives you
>your choice of interpreter to align to: 
>
>Z-code: Old ZIP port; MaxZip; ZeX; Zip Infinity
>TADS: Original TADS2EXE; MaxTADS
>
>Note: when you install this version of IFDropFile, you should trash any 
>older versions on your hard drive. They will not understand each others' 
>preferences files, so if you switch back and forth, they'll seem to keep 
>forgetting your interpreter choices.

I must be psychic.  I was just thinking today, as I put together the
IF Starter Kit for the Mac, that Sr. Plotkin ought to update IFDropFile
so as to account for MaxTADS.

Not only am I psychic, but my psychic waves went back in time to tell 
him to update IFDF.  I'll have to coin a new buzzword, like "temporal
psychometrics."  Sure, and it's a force mediated by "psychyons."

That, or he codes *really* fast.

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