Re: UNIX resource compiler???

[Alfred Perlstein <bright at hotjobs dot com>]

You may want to look at Berkeley db, or ldap.  "altavista" is your friend
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On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Nikolas Kauer wrote:

> 
> Do you know of somebody who has written something like a 
> resource compiler for Unix executables (NOT Win32 or Mac)?
> I would like to include about 100 text files with data as 
> an object file in my Unix (Linux, OSF, etc.) executable/library 
> and somehow "open" those compiled files for read in my main 
> program.  This would be a mile stone for the specific application 
> in high energy physics I'm working on, but I could imagine this 
> could be very useful in many other situations.  
> 
> This appears to be a common technique for Windows based applications, 
> however, I couldn't find such a resource compiler for Unix executables 
> (there is probably no defined interface for Unix).  Unfortunately, I 
> lack the knowledge to design a simple interface for Unix.  Hints to 
> resources where I could learn more about the structure of Unix executables 
> would also be greatly appreciated.  Maybe there is a simpler method to 
> bind resources to executables in Unix that I'm not aware of.
> 
> If you know something. please let me know.  
> 
> Nikolas Kauer
> 
> PS I'm not on the mailing list.
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