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From: mheumann AT post DOT uni-bielefeld DOT de (Manni Heumann)
Subject: Re: Allegro grabber data files
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Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 15:21:47 GMT
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In article <kp1fdHS00iWU03aGY0 AT andrew DOT cmu DOT edu>, James W Sager Iii <sager+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>I have TONS of graphics and sound files I want to port into one larg
>data file, but I don't want to take months of inserting them in with the
>grabber's interface. Does anyone have djgpp code to write bitmaps and
>sounds to a .dat file. Or for that matter, does anyone have code to
>write bitmaps/sounds to anysort of data file, it doesn't have to support
>routines done to a grabber file, just read/write with gifs and sounds.
>Any help would be appreciated, thanks
>

I had a smililar problem, so I tried to figure out the sources of Allegro's 
DAT-Program. Maybe I am to stupid, I won't try that again. My advice would be: 
Forget the grabber, use the DAT.EXE thingy. I wrote a short program that 
produced a batch-file to add bitmaps to a .dat-file. That's not very elegant, 
but it gets the job done.

Manni