[mkgmap-dev] Text format for TYP files

Sun Jan 17 00:49:52 GMT 2010


On 17.01.2010 01:47, Greg Troxel wrote:
>    We could do that, but I just got another idea: I will create a simple
>    TYP file with http://ati.land.cz/gps/typdecomp/ and try to decompile
>    it by hand into source file(s) that would be compiled with GNU Assembler
>    to the TYP file.  That should be enough for my immediate needs, to define
>    some line styles.  I will probably need a couple of weeks for that.
>
> That might work, if the format is regular enough.  You're writing the
> code, but my first inclination is to define xml for the TYP file and
> write something that uses an xml parser to an in-memory structure and
> the write out the bits.
>
>    
O I just remember the biggest problem with ati.land. It does drop some 
"3byte / extended" types. Be careful and look at the sourcecode if you 
want to reverse engineer.
>
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