ALAN ADVENTURE LANGUAGE

			     Release 2.6

The Alan System is a special purpose language for creating interactive
fiction or text adventures. It consists of a compiler which compiles
Alan source to an intermediate form and an interpreter that interprets
such an intermediate form.

The Alan System is request-ware. The complete system is available
without charge through electronic mail on request from

	alan-request@softlab.se

Send an e-mail message with a single line like:

	SEND <platform>

for a distribution package including demos and executables for
<platform>, where <platform> currently should be replaced by one of:

	<platform>	size packed and encoded
			(compiler + interpreter package)
	AMIGA		119k + 97k
	SUN4		170k + 98k
	SOLARIS2
	PC		150k + 95k
	MAC		200k + 108k
	HP		320k + 222k

You can request the the documentation by sending a single line email
message containing:

	SEND <text>

where <text> should be replaced by TEXT or POSTSCRIPT. Text is sent as
plain text (187K) and PostScript is compressed and uuencoded to 192k.

The current PC version supports MS-DOS only.

Archives are distributed in various formats depending on platform.

You may add the word ALAN or ARUN after the platform name to indicate
if only the compiler or only the interpreter package should be
delivered. Otherwise both will be delivered. E.g. SEND AMIGA ALAN will
only send the compiler package for Amiga, whilst SEND MAC will deliver
both the compiler and the interpreter packages for Mac.

If you have the interpreter package you need only to request the
compiler package from the above address (SEND <platform> ALAN).

The interpreter package contains the interpreter and some examples and
is freely distributable. The documentation is also freely
distributable (but copyrighted). Please forward this to friends or
copy it onto any FTP-sites. But remember that the compiler may NOT be
copied or redistributed. For complete copying conditions refer to the
file COPYING in the distribution.

The interpreter packages can also be found on the Interactive Fiction
archive at ftp.gmd.de:/if-archive/programming/alan.

NOTE however that compiler packages are NOT freely distributable, each
delivered package will automatically be registered on the requestor.


You may contact the authors on the following email addresses:

	thoni@softlab.se
	gorfo@ida.liu.se


Happy Authoring!

	The ThoNi & GorFo Adventure Factories