AmigLoadable File Format
I've got a question for the Amiga Guru's out there. The Amigados
Technical Reference Manual describes the file format for loadable binary
files. What I'm not sure I understand are the references to "Resident
Libraries." The manual makes it sound like these are not the same as the
shared libraries in libs. Is this something that was planned for future
expansion, but never happened, or what?
The reason I askis because I've been toying with the idea of writing
something like PowerPacker, with a few new features. Data Compression is
easy, as I can beat ZIP's implosion. Interpreting the expanded chunks is
what I think will give me problems.
Eric Schwertfeger
P.S. One of the new features is an option for the decompression to be done
by a shared library routine, so that should get rid of about 400 bytes of
overhead As compared to PowerPacker (as I don't know how large my dedicated
extraction routine will be yet).
P.P.S Also in the works is a CLI based zip file creator, extractor, and a
self-extracting archive creator.