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From: Darco <rquat@datasys.net>
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Subject: Re: Combine v1.4
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 19:14:37 -0400
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James Shaughnessy wrote:
> 
> Cool Darco, nice one!  This is proving EXTREMELY useful to me, saving
> on all those really annoying problems caused by changing something
> even just slightly.  My NineBall game may actually eventually get
> finished now ;-)
>

cool! Someone has benefited from my work! ;)

> I tried recompiling it using Turbo C++ 3.0 for DOS (to lose the
> DATA_ part in the #defines - just a preferences thing), but it now
> won't work properly -- ie. the "data\*.*" wildcard arg in the batch
> file method now doesn't work, so I reverted back to the trusty default
> which works perfectly.  What did you compile it with?

I wrote and compiled it with Djgpp. It should compile fine under
everything...It's pure 100% ANSI C. BTW: If you want to get the
arguments working, I think you have to link an object... Wildargs.obj I
think. However, I think TC++ will choke on the position offset... I'll
fix that in the next release.

> It's okay though, I'll either get used to using DATA_ or manually
> delete them from the header.h
> The only thing I can suggest to improve it (apart from perhaps more
> flexibility with the #define naming) is to tabulate the addresses
> so they are all aligned, I think a "\t\t" in the fprintf should do it,
> but that's really trivial.
> 

Actually... I've already added the "\t\t"... ;) I added it a day after I
released v1.4. I'm working on v1.5 right now, and I'll upload it after I
get finished adding a few more features.

> I've been looking for this utility ever since I got the Yaroze,
> so thanks greatly for releasing it.  (was just too damn lazy I guess
> to write my own)  Be sure to tell James Russell about it so he can put
> it in the utils link section of his FAQ, if you haven't already done
> so.
> 

I'm glad you like it! Everyone who's tried it has loved it. I'm glad
it's going over well with people.

'Darco