Re: GEOS file format, assembly, etc.

peterd@fusion.geoworks.com (Peter Dudley)

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From: peterd@fusion.geoworks.com (Peter Dudley)
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Subject: Re: GEOS file format, assembly, etc.
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>> I want to create a file by hand, and I can't find the file structure. What
>> chapter is it in?

Read the VM files chapter.  The file structure is not a structure so much
as a set of indirections and handle tables, with the data stored throughout.
You'll see that it's very much a nontrivial task creating a GEOS VM file
from outside GEOS.


>> That's right.  Any info?  By the way, I'm not just talking Object-Assembly,
>> I'm talking Object-Machine code :).  I want to know how they do it.

This is a pretty broad question.  Answers certainly are out of the scope
of email.  Could you restrict it a bit?

Pete.