Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/10/30/05:17:31
Richard Mitton writes:
>I've just downloaded the October 19th diffs for Allegro, and applied them
>over my September 28th original. Everything works fine, except for the demo
>program and the new keyboard layout thing. I have found the source of the
>problem - the patch program hasn't updated demo.dat and keyboard.dat.
>Looking through the .diff file, I see that the aren't actually in there!
Indeed they are not: the diff command I used seems to have just skipped
these binary files. I'm no expert on using diff: is there any easy way
to make it work with these? All I can find in the info pages is a
comment explaining that it usually skips binary files, and I don't think
I can just tell it to treat them all as text because CR/LF sequences
would get corrupted...
In any case, I don't think this is such a huge problem. I didn't put the
.dat files in the patch zip, and I probably wouldn't want to include
them in a diff either, because they are quite large. The diff files are
intended for people who want to keep up with the latest WIP developments
without having too much to download, and I think most such people would
rather just live without the demo game, that have to download a 500k
binary patch :-)
--
Shawn Hargreaves - shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk - http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/
Beauty is a French phonetic corruption of a short cloth neck ornament.
- Raw text -