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In article <7431@hsv3.UUCP> jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman) writes:
> I'm writing a program which needs access to some large (8K-32K) chunks of
> data.  These data are produced by other programs and wind up in data files.
> I'm currently just reading the data in from these files at run time, but
> would really like to able to link them into my main program.
> 

If nothing else works, here is a kludge which might.  I used it in
a previous life to stitch a p-SYSTEM binary into an MS-DOS loader
program, but that is another story.

In your executable, define a 32mb data area (global static data)
initialized to a pattern you can easily find.
Link so you get a map!!!.  Rename .exe to .bin, read into debug.
Using the offset from the map, look just before the 32 meg area
for some lenght for the pattern.  When you have found the address
at which the block of data lives, just read in the file to that
location from disk.  Write the file back and change .bin to .exe.

Hope you do not have to resort to this, but it worked for me in a
past life.
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