I have a better, albeit slightly more complex solution. Games like Doom, Heretic, Hexen, and Descent were distributed in split PKZIP Archives. But they were not spanned PKZIP Archives in the traditional sense. They were literally a sliced up Dos Executable Zip Archive. I think the unxup utility under Linux has the ability to remove the executable Dos Header from these Zip files. A script unzips the files, and placesthe data to the files in he appropriate data directories.
At least this is what Wargus does for the Stratagus Project. The intresting part is recovering the extracted data from the split archive. Under Dos, there was a tility that did this called DeIce. (I once had an obsession with Deice, I found a program that carved up files that Deice likes, and repackaged every Dos Program I had with DeIce.) naturally, there should be an application out there that preforms DeIce's function. Now. As for packaging data, I reccommend only shareware data be packaged. Nothing Full version. But prboom-engine should not rely on prboom-data because vavoom relies on the exact same data as prboom. So don't make the two package pre-requisites. _______________________________________________ PLF-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://www.zarb.org/mailman/listinfo/plf-discuss
