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- ERIC MILLER
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- > How does one read/Write a header on a File in TPascal?
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- Easy. Write the header structure as a Type. Then open
- the File as unTyped and blockread the data into a Variable
- of the structure Type. Take GIFs For example:
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- Type
- Gif_Header = Record { first 13 Bytes of a Gif }
- Sig, Ver : Array[1..3] of Char;
- Screen_X,
- Screen_Y : Word;
- _Packed,
- Background,
- Pixel_Aspect : Byte;
- end;
- Var
- F : File; { unTyped File }
- G : GIF_Header;
- begin
- Assign(F, 'Filename.gif');
- Reset(F, 1); { blockread in Units of one Byte }
- Blockread(F, G, SizeOf(G)); { read from File }
- Close(F);
- With G DO
- begin
- Writeln('Version: ', Sig, Ver);
- Writeln('Res: ', Screen_X, 'x', Screen_Y, 'x', 2 SHL (_Packed and 7));
- end;
- end.