Re: PakFiles

[s369625@student.uq.edu.au]

On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Christian Reiniger wrote:
>s369625@student.uq.edu.au wrote:
>
>>>Hmmm, I think variable sized filenames are the best way. They are only read
>>Agreed, I was just thinking that it would be simpler not to store a variable
>>sized datum like a filename unecassarily.
>
>But good that you said that anyway - it brought me to the pascal-like
>string storing which makes reading really easier and faster ;)
Null terminated strings are something I can't forgive AT&T for.  I mean if you
want to store lots of text you generally use some other data structure anyway.


>
>Hmm, then we'll need conversion functions all around - e.g. fopen () uses
>normal ASCII strings. Unicode is very nice, but also very difficult to use
>in this ASCII-based world :(
Oops, forgot about that.