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From: west@turing.toronto.edu (Tom West)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Combining program and data in an executable.
Message-ID: <1990Nov6.133618.23396@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Date: 6 Nov 90 18:36:18 GMT
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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  I have a program that acts upon data currently stored in a file.  I would
like to somehow be able to combine the program with the data, so that a 
separate data file would not be necessary.  (i.e. spreadsheet data with a 
viewer builtin.)  Is there any way that one can do this?

  Actually, of course it can be done.  Programs that build self-extracting
archives must do exactly this.  i.e. they have a uncompressing part and
a data part. 

  Could anyone either provide a few hints as to how this is done, or 
point me towards some magazine articles describing this?

  Thanks in advance.

					Tom West
				    west@turing.toronto.edu
					     or
				    tomwest@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca