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From: jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Linking binary data into MSC/MASM programs
Message-ID: <7431@hsv3.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 91 16:45:58 GMT
Reply-To: jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman)
Organization: Video Seven / Headland Technology
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I'm writing a program which needs access to some large (8K-32K) chunks of
data.  These data are produced by other programs and wind up in data files.
I'm currently just reading the data in from these files at run time, but
would really like to able to link them into my main program.

I could theoretically write a program (call it BIN2DB) which would take my
binary file and make a huge masm file with a bunch of DB directives in it,
but this seems like a real pain.  What would be really perfect would be to
have a utility (say BIN2OBJ) which would turn my file into a Microsoft OBJ
with a public symbol at location 0.  Then I could very easily access the
data from inside my program.

Has anyone tried anything like this?  Or does someone have alternate
suggestions?  Thanks in advance!

-- 
Jim Seidman (Drax), the accidental engineer.
"It doesn't have to work... they'll be paralyzed just from laughing at me."
							- Dr. Who, _Shada_
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