Re: [AD] dat2c ready for testing

[Laurence Withers <lwithers@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Sunday 18 August 2002 21:47, Eric Botcazou wrote:
> Almost perfect for me (a few glitches in the readme file: -h is no
> longer required, data is the default suffix). 

Fixed, thanks. I also added a note about the zero-size array warning.

> The last remaining
> complaint I have relates to the '-o' option: it shouldn't be
> mandatory either in order to be strictly compatible with dat2s (the
> default output is stdout).

So, if -o is not specified, then write to stdout? Also, should I add an 
option to support encrypted datafiles, much like -007 in dat2s?

> Do you still plan to merge the code into a single source file ? 

Yes, it will be a simple cut + paste job, since there is only one header 
file and two source files. Also I wrote a nice utility to convert to 
Allegro tab format :-)

Eventually, it may make sense to move the core code into 'datedit.c' et. 
al., allowing us to refactor the code so that (for example) exporting a 
header file is done in one place and shared between grabber, dat, dat2s 
and dat2c.

> Where do you want to put the documentation ? In which format ?

In allegro/tools/grabber.txt, under the section 'Compiling Datafiles', 
in plain text. This seems to make sense since that is where dat2s is 
documented.

I'll prepare a patch for everything within the next few days, assuming 
there are no major issues.

Bye for now,
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Laurence Withers,  lwithers@xxxxxxxxxx
(GnuPG 04A646EA) http://www.lwithers.demon.co.uk/
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