Re: A83: External Level

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Subject: Re: A83: External Level
From: "James Matthews" <matthews@tkb.att.ne.jp>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 15:48:49 +0900
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Bingo!  That's what I wanted...I don't want to limit my tutorials to a
shell, though...although, yeah that's another good idea...support for SOS
and AShell.  Or perhaps screw BN, and go just with my friend Joe's OS
:)...hehehehehe.

I'll look into it...

> what are you talking about? external levels are stored in programs. to
> access them, depending on your implementation, you can either look for
> them by name...
> 
> ex:
> prgmZNAME___
> 
> where ZNAME is the prefix for every level, and ___ is the name of the
> level. a good example is penguins or slopes).
> 
> ...or store a standard level detection string at the beginning of the
> level. this is the method used in the zlib detect routine. and if you
> must know, using this routine is much smaller and easier than writing
> your own routine. for a good example of using this method check out the
> source to bytes (it's an sos program).
>

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