Re: [AL] [AI] Allegro Idiots

[George F. <geo...@me...>]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 01:49:24PM -0500, Yo-Yo Ma wrote:
> Well thank you for that little pep-talk  =o)  guy B describes me to the T. 
> Yeah, I didn't know you could type "info allegro", and I just did - but it 
> gave a list of different DJGPP tools and I didn't see the word "allegro" 
> mentioned once. It also says to move to the line I wanna look up (none of 
> which happen to be about what I'm looking for), and hit "m", and then 
> "enter". This does nothing. I hit "m" and type the name of the subject I 
> wanna look up, and it says "not complete". So much for "info allegro". 

I think you don't like the `info' program.  If that's the case,
use your favourite web browser to view the HTML version of the
documentation instead.

> Anyway, thank you for suggesting exedat. Out of sheer intuition I typed 
> "make exedat" in the allegro directory (nothing in the so-called 
> "documentation" specified to do such), and then found the executable in 
> "tools". I tried to invoke it and it gave me a list of options. But which 
> one is used to put all files in the executable? And will I have to change 
> the program's code to load these now in their new state?

Go to the `examples' directory, run `exexedat', and it will
explain.

George

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