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                   Welcome to the TADS (Text Adventure
                 Development System) documentation in HTML.

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These files were converted from TeX and Ami Pro format into HTML by NK
Guy as a public service for the interactive fiction community. Copyright
with these files remains in its entirety with their author, Michael J.
Roberts. THE READER ASSUMES FULL RISK AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR USE OF
THESE FILES. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS TELA DESIGN LIABLE FOR ANY
DAMAGES, DIRECT OR INDIRECT, RESULTING FROM USE OF THIS DOCUMENTATION.

For more information on the copyright status of these files please
consult the file "licence.html"


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There. Now that that quasi-legal nastiness is out of the way, we can
move on to more fun things. These files represent the entire TADS
documentation supplied by TADS' publisher, High Energy Software, when
TADS was still a shareware product. Now that TADS is a freeware program,
author Mike Roberts has made the documentation available online. These
files are a direct HTML translation.

They're current through to version 2.5.5 of TADS. Note that the
integration of the latest TADS documentation was done by hand, and as a
result it's possible that some conversion errors may have crept in along
the way. If you find any problems, *please* drop me a line. My email
address is:

  tela@tela.bc.ca

The latest, and hopefully most accurate, version of these files will be
kept online at:

  http://www.tela.bc.ca/tela/tads-manual/

You'll also be able to find various versions of the TADS documentation
in various formats in the IF-archive, at:

  ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/programming/tads/manuals/

That site is in Germany. If you find the connection a little slow the US
mirror for the site is:

  ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/doc/misc/if-archive/programming/tads/manuals/

and the Canadian mirror is:

  ftp://ftp.io.org/pub/mirrors/if-archive/programming/tads/manuals/


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In addition to the manual I also maintain the TADS Page, which is
intended to be a central index of TADS resources on the Web. Its URL is:

 http://www.tela.bc.ca/tela/tads/

Feel free to email me with any comments or suggested links.



Have fun!

  - N. K. Guy, April 1, 2001