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From: matth@bellatlantic.net (Matthew Hulett)
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Subject: Re: What's DAT? Please Help Ira...
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 14:44:53 GMT
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>I was leafing through Ira Rainey's 2D tutorials and noticed he zipped
>all his data into *.dat files! What is a *.dat file and how do I
>read/write one?

   Hi Zain, here is what Ira wrote back to me today (as for creating
them or extracting the graphics for viewing, someone else will have to
chime in):

>The .dat files are just collections of all of the graphics and sound data
>put together in one file, sequentially. There is no compression involved, I
>just butted up all of the individual files together to make one big one.
>It's just simpler than having to deal with loads of little files. Obviously
>you should only consider doing this if your graphics etc are in a final
>state.

-Matt