Printing text from an external file in C

hennipaste · 05-24-2010, 01:41 AM

Hi, I was reading through the source code of adventure in the bsdgames package and I had noticed that most of the text is read from a file called glorkz. I'm wondering about what function/technique the author used to print from the file; I've been looking through the code for a while (particularly io.c) and I haven't been able to figure it out.

Thanks.

jf.argentino · 05-24-2010, 04:53 AM

Take a look to the <stdio.h> (man stdio.h)

hennipaste · 05-24-2010, 07:01 AM

It doesn't really help =/. The file glorkz isn't actually accessed during execution, I think it's compiled with the rest of the program. All of the output sentences and input vocabulary are put into this file, I can't seem to work out how they're all accessed within the program itself though. This way certainly seems more efficient than using printf over and over again if you need a lot of text output (which I do).

jf.argentino · 05-24-2010, 07:59 AM

A quick look in the Makefile says that "glorkz" is converted by the "setup" program to C source code