| Chapter 2: The Source Text |

| 2.14. What to do about a bug

In its present guise, Inform is a young piece of software, and bugs are to be expected from time to time. The most obvious bugs are the ones which Inform catches itself, when it confesses that it has halted in failure, or translated the source text into a program which cannot be compiled further. But sometimes it will also happen that Inform will issue a misleading Problem message, or appear to work normally but to produce a game which does not do what it should have done.

It is very helpful for users to report faults, so that the program can be improved for everyone else. To report a fault, please first check with the Inform home page to make sure that the fault is present in the latest version of Inform available: if so, then please also download the bug report form and fill in a copy. Further details are on the form itself.

Inform's home page is:

> www.inform-fiction.org

and the site map may be the quickest way to find the form.

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