From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Allegro Datafiles Stuph...
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 19:16:36 +0100
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Calvin French writes:
>problems. Anyways, I do have one more question. Is there a way to load a 
>datafile object strictly by NUMBER (rather than name)? All my other 

Easy: just give them names like "1", "2", "3" etc :-)

If you really want to do it by position index, it would be a fairly
simple change to the load_datafile_object() function, but I think that
would be quite a dangerous approach. When you are reading individual
objects out of an archive file, it seems a bit risky to write code that
depends on the precise ordering of the archive. Using ASCII object names
is much safer...


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