Re: Build read-only file into exe file?

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"Davy" <zhushenli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> A read-only data file is read in a C/C++ program.
> And I use stdio function such as fopen() to fread() to operate the
> file.
> The content of the data file is constant.
>
> How to build the file into exe file?
>
> I work on MS windows. I use Visual C++ 6.0.
>
> Someone suggest me to use "resources file" in VC. I am new to it. Can
> you give some tutorial of it, thanks.
>
>
> Any suggestions will be appreciated!
> Best regards,
> Davy
>

Open your resource editor in the IDE and import the file into a binary
resource. Then you can load the resource into a memory buffer during
execution.

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