From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Nikolas Kauer <kauer@pheno.physics.wisc.edu>
To: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
Subject: UNIX resource compiler???
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 23:58:00 -0000
Message-id: <9901012127.AA20011@egret.physics.wisc.edu>
X-SW-Source: 1999-01n/msg00006.html

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.