Re: [AD] Packfiles and #

[aj <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

sorry for being so lame as to not understand  the path system..
but i think  this single line additition is what is needed..

from wip 4.1.14 / src/file.c /  pack_fopen()  line 1688

   _packfile_type = 0;
+   if ( !exists(filename))
        if (ustrchr(filename, '#'))
          return pack_fopen_special_file(filename, mode);
   if (!_al_file_isok(filename))
      return NULL;



t 06:37 PM 23/07/2004, you wrote:
> 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.
>
> Evert
>
>
>
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