From: Damian Yerrick <MYNAMEISd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comNO2CANNEDHAM>
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Subject: Re: Allegro: Problem with datafiles
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Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 05:09:50 GMT
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On Sat, 22 Jan 2000 04:46:55 -0000, "Alan McFarlane"
<hawkwing AT fdn DOT co DOT uk> wrote:

>I have been trying for weeks now to create an application using (amongst
>other things) Allegro. The application uses an uncompressed Allegro
>datafile, which I would like to have appended (using exedat) to the main
>code. Unfortunatly, I can't get the datafile routines to work.

Appended datafiles are broken in the latest Allegro WIP (3.9.30). Try
using dat2s (see the source for setup) if you want to embed your
datafile; this has the additional advantage that if you use UPX to
compress your executable, the datafile will be compressed with UPX's
LZO, which is slightly more efficient than Allegro's implementation of
LZSS.

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