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On Friday 23 July 2004 09:51, Chris wrote:
> While testing APEG for me, AJ stumbled acorss a problem I had run into
> in the past but had forgotten about. It seems Allegro's packfile
> routines refuse to open normal files that contain # characters,
> presumably due to the fact that that's what it uses to open datafile
> objects as files.
Yes, that's a known problem that has been discussed several times as I
recall - but one that's not trivial to fix.
> If I get the time I may try to fix it, but if I don't.. I think the best
> way to fix this would be to have Allegro search for a file on disk that
> matches the filename string, as given by the user, first. Then if it's
> not found and the filename contains an #, try and open it as a datafile
> object like it does now.
Yes, this would be the most sensible thing to do IMO.
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