From: George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Allegro2.2:grabber crashes
Date: 18 Nov 1997 21:22:43 GMT
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On Tue, 18 Nov 1997 18:36:21 +0300 in comp.os.msdos.djgpp Sergei N. Lapin <slapin AT students DOT soros DOT karelia DOT ru> wrote:
: Hi, all!

: I just began with Allegro, all tests/examples compiled and run well,
: demo game too, but grabber utility crashes with .dat files.
: (My .dat file size is 115K.) Even dat crashes too, but not dat2s!
: If someone could help me, it would ben nice.

What exactly happens?  Where did the .dat file come from, and what
were you doing to it that made the grabber crash?

Can you start the grabber, create your own datafile, and do the same
thing to that without it crashing?

It sounds to me as if you're trying to use the grabber and dat
programs on some .dat file which is not an Allegro datafile.  The
dat2s utility simply converts a binary file to an assembler source
file in a special way, and presumably isn't checking the file format. 

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