to run the dialog program,

>>add gnu; make

and then use the program by:

>>dialog <your_script>

This program should really be in Perl or some scripting language,
so I hope to do that in the future.

Give each of your characters a number. Currently the c program
has page layout descriptions for characters numbered 0 to 5.

The your_script file should consist of a number, or tag, a newline
immediately following, and then your dialogue for that character's
tag. The lines will be displayed with line breaks where you put them.

Should you want to change the page layout, feel make a copy of the
program and modify the fprint statements containing the html code.

Finally, you should make sure that the following files are in the
same directory as your newly made dialogue html's:
	top.html	<-- this is the parent, contains javascript code
			    points to first frame of dialogue (001.html)
			    top.html must be the first page called to
			    begin any dialogue, and can be renamed.
	panel.html	<-- this contains the controls in lower right frame
	dummy.html	<-- necessary for now
	ll.gif, r.gif, rr.gif, _.gif	}
	ls.gif, ss.gif, sr.gif		}-- button images for control panel
	paper3.gif	<-- background pic for the lower 2 frames.
	###.html	<-- Each of these files contain a pointer in
			    <script> tag that sets the top.next
			    pointer to be the next frame to be
			    loaded.

The start of the dialogue is 001.html. This is pointed to by the page 
top.html.


Questions & Comments are welcome: tango@mit.edu

Thanks!

Chris Tang
last modified: May 22, 1996