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From:	Shawn Hargreaves <SHargreaves AT acclaimstudios DOT co DOT uk>
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: An Allegro/Grabber question
Date:	Mon, 13 Dec 1999 16:33:16 -0000
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> In the guise of learning how to write games I have found several
> Allegro/DJGPP games with source :-). Some of these come with .DAT files
that
> are clearly created using Allegro's Grabber utility. My question is, given
> that I believe I've downloaded the latest Grabber, should I be able to
load
> these .DAT files and view the resources they contain?

Usually, yes. What happens when you try this? If it doesn't work at all,
that is probably because the game author put a password on the datafile.
If the file loads but then only shows chunks of binary data rather than
sensible types of object that you can manipulate, that is probably 
because they were using some custom grabber plugins, that you don't have
installed on your system. But you need to say exactly what files you
are talking about, and what happens when you try to load them, before
anyone can say for sure...


	Shawn Hargreaves.

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