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From: landingham@deceat.dec.com (G.M. Landingham BXB1-1/F11 293-5297)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How does one create a .FD file?
Message-ID: <8812091541.AA29174@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 9 Dec 88 18:37:00 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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>gosh, it's a long while since I converted my .fd files, but I'm fairly sure 
>the tool to do it was in some semi-obscure directory on the tools or extras
>disk.  Just so you are aware, you have to use the path command if you run
>your application from a directory other than the one the .fd files are
>situated on (I mean the converted bitmap offsets) or alternately cd into
>that directory.  I am also fairly sure that I saw the converted files on
>an early Fish Disk.  Amazing Computing has a directory of the entire Fish
>Library.  I know that the files somehow got missed on one of the very early
>versions (1.0 I think) and so showed up on developer's disks and in the 
>public domain.  Gosh, I haven't touched AmigaBASIC in about a year ...
>If I find out more specific information, I'll post again.
>                                              LadyHawke
[no fancy extraction here, this is VMS!]

Gee, thanks, but I asked how to _create_ an .FD file, not how to convert one.