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

[Jay Bernardo <allegrolist@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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).

-Jay