From: Alistair Bain <AHBain AT NOSPAMPLEASEWEREBRITISH DOT pulsedesign DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Allegro datafiles - HELP!!!
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 19:31:51 +0100
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OK, I'm not sure what's going on here, maybe you can help.

I've been looking at some of my old programs and when I try to compile
them (no errors) they crash (not an uncommon event - but read on). I
have isolated the problem to the load_datafile line.
The datafiles were originally created in  2.1 and 2.11. Are there any
known problems with 2.2 datafiles.
All the datafiles contain is a few modex compiled sprites and a palette.
I've tried exporting the sprites to pcxs and then re-importing them into
a new datafile - The program still crashes at the load_datafile
statement.

I have been using 
DATAFILE *data; //with global variable initialisations
data=load_datafile("data.dat"); //in main

I have also tried printing the filename to a temp buffer and then
passing that to the load_datafile.

PS have tried downloading new 2.2 and making it.
PPS Haven't tried re-installing DJGPP (yet)
PPPS They used to work...
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Alistair Bain
AHBain AT NOSPAMPLEASEWEREBRITISH DOT pulsedesign DOT demon DOT co DOT uk