hi all, suppose i have a video file, a sound file, an image file, a gnumeric spreadsheet, a number, a boolean and an mp3.
and suppose all those things are needed by a C program. kind of like how a game uses a plethora of image and sound files. is there a library that will allow me to combine all that different stuff into a single file and then let me transparently access any individual element using an API in C? i suppose i can do it with a bunch of system() calls with tar, but that isn't a very nice solution. i've delved into the code for lxdoom, prboom and doom legacy. wad files are very similar. they have a directory structure and there's an interface for accessing any particular element of the wad file. the boundary between "things" is enforced by the wad format itself, but it's up to the program itself (doom) to interpret the returned data correctly (whether it's sound info, image info, a linedef, etc....). anything similar as a canned C library? tar/ar would be perfect if there was a C API to go along with them. pete _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
