Re: Files and Descriptions
  By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Thu Jul 18 2019 08:59 pm

 >   Re: Files and Descriptions
 >   By: Digital Man to Psi-Jack on Thu Jul 18 2019 07:19 pm
 >
 >  DM> Until there's a FileBase object (similar to the JS MsgBase object), a
 >  DM> solution in pure JS probably isn't that practical (not impossible, just
 >  DM> not practical). Otherwise, I'd have already done it I think. :-)
 >
 > A while ago, I noticed echicken (and I think Deuce too) put together some
 > filebase access scripts in JS.  In exec, there's filearea-lb.js (for
 > changing & listing file areas in JS), and in load, there's filebase.js,
 > filebrowser.js, filedir.js, and file_size.js.  I think they do some trickery
 > to parse the binary filebase files to provide that information to JS
 > scripts.

Yeah, and they're going to be obsolete pretty soon. :-(

                                            digital man

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