From:	"DeHackEd" <notgiven AT out DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Subject:	Re: Allegro Datafile Problem
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Date:	Sat, 14 Nov 1998 13:12:44 GMT
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Have you loaded the entire datafile in at once, or individual entries?

If you do it individually, then the format is:

DATAFILE *d = insert_entry_here;
int enrtyid = DAT_ID('X','D','I','M'); // 4 characters
char *str = get_datafile_property(d, entryid);
int value = atoi(str);

If you load the entire file in at once, then change the char *str line to:
char *str = get_datafile_property(d + entry_offset, entryid);

If you used datafile[MY_PICTURE] format from .h generation, MY_PICTURE is a
valid offset.

Yes, the documentation for that section isn't very clear.
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