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From: Paul Michailidis <paulm14 AT home DOT com>
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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 01:11:38 GMT
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At the moment, the way I import graphics in a program is by opening a
.bmp, or and .pcx file. However, in the real world, programs do not
import graphics via these formats, but with data files eg. graphics.dat

How is it that graphics can be pulled from these .dat files? Is there a
program that converts graphic file formats to .dat files? or .cfg? etc

Similarily with audio files, I use either .wav or .mid but again in the
real world they are obtained with .voc or .dat files.

Thanks,
Paul M.