1. Re: Resources and Euphoria
At 11:26 AM 6/3/98 -0700, David Cuny wrote:
>that as well. You would need a constant in your main program, something =
>like:
>
> DATAFILE_OFFSET =3D 000000
>
>If this constant was non-zero, the program would know that the INI was =
>bound to the EXE. To bind the INI to the EXE, the packing program would:
>
> 1. Build the DAT file.
> 2. Bind the EX file, and get the size.
> 3. Change the constant to the size of the EXE.
> 4. Bind the EX file again.
> 5. Attach the INI file to the EXE
> 6. Change the constant in the main program back to '000000'
>
>I think this is a *much* better scheme.
>
>Comments?
I don't understand why you have to bind it twice.
Surely you can just append the index info to the file
in reverse order and just start reading backwards from
the end ?
Graeme.
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