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- Fli.lib is a library of routines for creating and playing Autodesk Animator
- compatible .fli files. It is a large model library. A detailed
- description of fli.lib is in flidoc.txt. flidoc.txt also includes byte-by-byte
- descriptions of most of the file formats used in the Autodesk Animator.
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- Fli.lib and the associated source and documentation files are
- Copyright 1990 Dancing Flame, San Francisco. Permission is granted
- to distribute fli.lib and to use fli.lib in any non-commercial program.
- If you would like to use fli.lib in a commercial program please contact
- Dancing Flame. The usual licensing fee is $500.00 or the retail price of
- 5 copies of the program, whichever is less.
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- For a printed copy of the documentation and copies of the library
- on floppy disk (please specify 3 1/2 inch or 5 1/4 inch format)
- please send a check or money order for $40.00 to:
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- Dancing Flame
- 125 West Blithedale Ave.
- Mill Valley, CA 94941
- (415) 388-6143
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- Dancing Flame is a small company dedicated to animation software and
- graphic simulations. We keep odd hours and often go on unannounced
- vacations. There is no phone answering machine. You are likely to
- get answers to your questions as quickly by mail as by phone. However
- if you must call you are more likely to get an answer from 1:00 to 6:00
- in the afternoon, or on Fridays. If you have a BIX account, mail to
- jim_kent usually is answered in a day or two.
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- The source to fli.lib is broken up into many small modules (58 in all)
- so that programs that do not use much of the fli.lib will not be burdened
- with excess code. Normally the linker will handle which modules to
- include for you, and you need not even look at the source. However if your
- programming environment is not compatible with Turbo C large model libraries
- or in other ways is unusual you may have to explore the sources. (You
- may be just curious for that matter.) To assist this there is a tags
- file included in the source archive which lists all C global symbols
- alphabetically, and what file they are in.
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- Fli.lib was developed with Turbo C 2.0. A nearly identical library -
- flitcpp.lib - is provided for use with Turbo C++. Most of the 'read' side
- routines work with Microsoft C, but if you wish to create fli's or
- use the 'memory screen' functions under Microsoft, you'll have to
- delve into the source code. We don't have time currently to make
- a Microsoft version of the library, but hereby announce our willingness
- to waive the license fee for the first company to send us a complete
- Microsoft C version of the FLI.LIB.
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- Thank you very much. I hope the fli.lib is useful to you.
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- -Jim Kent
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