[AL] ANNOUNCE: Textdata 1.2

[Chris La M. <lam...@gt...>]

I have placed an update to the Textdata library at
http://home1.gte.net/lamantia/gameprog/allegro/textdata.htm.  The only
change is that I fixed a bug in maketext.c; it wasn't returning
EXIT_SUCCESS, so using maketext in a makefile would cause the makefile to
fail even if maketext succeeded.  If you are not using makefiles and are
already using an older version of textdata, there is no need to download the
update.

For those who have not yet seen Textdata, it adds a text data object to
Allegro. A text data object is an Allegro datafile object; it can be stored
in an Allegro datafile and loaded as needed by the library. The actual data
itself is simply a block of zero-delimited strings (a utility for converting
lists of carriage-return delimited strings is included here). Allegro, with
the help of the loader routines in textdata.c, will allocate the memory
individually for each string, and will return a pointer to a table of string
pointers; thus, a dynamically-allocated ragged array.

--Chris

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