Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > 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. >
Writing a C API to tar sounds workable, if the number and boolean can get a filename. > > pete > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
