
   Module name:   TSWS.MDL 
   Module I.D.:   TSWS
   Module type:   Import module
   Author:        Dirk Haun @ WI2
   Status:        Freeware
   Version No:    0.09
   Version date:  11.05.1996
   Purpose:       Display of files in the TSWS Chunk format as a 
                  kind of 'linked hex-dump'


Description:

This module may prove useful to only very few people (I, on the other 
hand, use it quite often). It displays files that are stored in my own 
proprietory binary format (in short: TSWS-chunk format) as a sort of 
linked hex-dump.

When it is a question of saving data for which there is as yet no standard 
format and which cannot be stored sensibly as ASCII, then I usually fall 
back to this format. Thus for instance the settings of my development 
environment 'Chatwin' or the packed icon data of of 'IconMan'.

The exact make-up will not be discussed here in detail (it would probably 
interest very few people), but in principle the files are made up of 
interlinked blocks (so-called 'chunks') that all start with a four byte 
long ASCII I.D. and a length descriptor (also 4 bytes). And its just these 
chunks that the module displays as a hex dump, where the interlinking can 
be recognised by indenting.


Standard disclaimer:

This module fulfils its objects for me, which does not mean that 
it will do this everywhere. So should one of these modules do
something unexpected, I cannot be held responsible for any sort
of damage caused thereby (whatever it may be) -- you use it at
your own risk.


Contact address:

The author of this module can be reached in the following ways:

 By snail-mail:

   Dirk Haun
   Europastr. 8
   64569 Nauheim

 By e-mail:

   Dirk Haun @ WI2 (MausNet)

