TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: power_bas
to: JAMES GOLDBLOOM
from: FRANK COX
date: 1995-06-27 11:01:00
subject: Re: Alive?

 > What process do you use to create custom screens using ANSI 
 > editors such as TheDraw or whatever, or maybe binary screens, 
 > which can be emdedded and linked right into the code of a 
 > PB3.x program?  A quick example would be helpful.
It may be worth noting that you can attach "anything" to the end of an .EXE 
file without affecting the operation of the program.  So you can write a 
program that will open itself for a binary read then get the last x 
characters of the file where you've stashed your data.  Take your program and 
your screen file and put them together like this:   COPY /B FILENAME.EXE + 
SCREEN.FIL FINAL.EXE.  In your program, you  OPEN "FINAL.EXE" FOR BINARY AS 
1
                                  SEEK #1, wherever your data begins
                             then GET$ #1, your data.
--- Msgedsq 2.2e
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* Origin: THE BIG ELECTRIC CAT Melville Sask *SDS* *PDN* (1:140/53)

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