The structure of a dat file

THE STRUCTURE OF A DAT FILE

Chapter 1 - The header

Colour Meaning

information that this is a dat file for Oni; do not change it

1F 25 00 00 number of files in total (9503)

7B 05 00 00 number of files, which are named (1403); for example 00031-rl_1.TXMP

46 00 00 00 number of all used different file extensions (70)

00 17 03 00 at this line begins the "body"

00 F1 95 00 size of the "body" (9,826,560 bytes) *

00 08 99 00 at this line begins the "end"

7B 6D 00 00 size of the "end" (28,027 bytes) *

filler

Colour	Meaning
	information that this is a dat file for Oni; do not change it
1F 25 00 00	number of files in total (9503)
7B 05 00 00	number of files, which are named (1403); for example 00031-rl_1.TXMP
46 00 00 00	number of all used different file extensions (70)
00 17 03 00	at this line begins the "body"
00 F1 95 00	size of the "body" (9,826,560 bytes) *
00 08 99 00	at this line begins the "end"
7B 6D 00 00	size of the "end" (28,027 bytes) *
	filler

*) You can set it to zero, if you want. It will work too. But then the programs Biturn and IRF_Oni can't read the dat file any longer.

Table of contents