From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Appending data to executables?
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 09:55:46 +0100
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Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) writes:
>Why do you want to attach the data to the exe and not include it IN the exe?
>Just curious, are you planing to make .dat files attached to exes?

That's the idea, yes. If I can do that, it is my code that will be
reading them, so it will be possible both to compress the data and to
selectively load only parts of it at runtime, while still only having a
single .exe file to distribute...


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