From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Some qusestions
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 19:02:28 +0000
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Nils van den Heuvel writes:
>Can i put a .jpg file in an allegro datafile and load it with
>load_jpeg()???? (I've got a library that works with allegro that does
>this)... Because when i did this it couldn't load the .jpg file...

If the JPEG library uses the Allegro PACKFILE routines, you can use a
name of the form "datafilename.dat#objectname" to read directly from it.
But I suspect it will be using the normal C library file functions, in
which case it cannot read from a datafile object.


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