Re: [AD] Reading an allegro packed file directly from a datafile returns incorrect values

[Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 22 June 2006 4:34 pm, Jay Bernardo wrote:
> > The 'p' modifier does not refer to whether the #objects are packed or
> > not.  In fact, the 'p' modifier is ignored when file#object syntax is
> > used.  The documentation is not clear, and I'm not sure what the
> > intended behaviour ought to be.
>
> I noticed that passing 'p', or not, on read from datafile didn't make
> a difference. There's no note in the docs about this, though.
>
> > It turns out to be "slh!" in little-endian, i.e. it is reading the
> > compressed data block without decompressing.
> >
> > Can I suggest using zip files instead of datafiles?
>
> Technically, the files I'm using are very small, so using compression
> isn't absolutely necessary. For now I can generate the files
> uncompressed. What I'm more concerned with at this point is whether
> this functionality should work (that is, we have a bug here!), or if
> it shouldn't (in which case the documentation has to be updated).

Either way its a bug ;)

But the docs looked clear enough to me, saying that file.dat#object can be 
used as if it were a normal PACKFILE, which implies that it'll handle "p" the 
same way.

> -Jay
>
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Thomas Fjellstrom
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