Re: Zero-padded [map-raw] from CoMET

[Jens Granseuer <jensgr@xxxxxxx>]

On 26.01.2005 23:00, Dave Fancella wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 January 2005 03:45 pm, The Fox wrote:
> > > Why do you need that? I mean, who on earth would want to edit the
> > > map manually?
> >
> > Nobody except me :-). Yet. I wanted to "move" the northeastern part of
> > the map to the southwestern corner and didn't want to do it in CoMET
> > (too much clicking for my taste).
> 
> Me too!  Me too!  What was it again?  ;)
> 
> Um, seriously, I have wanted to tweak maps by hand when fooling around.  Or
> rather, map, you know, awhile back, whenever CoMET crashed if you looked at
> the monitor funky.

But that's a thing of the past, isn't it?

> Here ya go.  How about being able to work up some cool shell scripts that take
> bad maps and turn them into good maps?

I don't know what you have in mind here. What are bad maps and what are good
maps? And what do we need that for, anyway? Sure, you can turn any arbitrary
binary file into a 20x20 map that is technically correct, but what use would
that be?

Jens