Overview

    Welcome  to  the  PPDatabase  system.   This  system  allows  you  to
    catalogue data and / or  data  files  into  one  large database file.
    After seeing a game which  had  over  400  files,  most of which were
    tiny,  I  decided  that  something  like  this  was  needed.   When a
    program uses many tiny  files,  there  is  a  lot of dead space found
    on the drive.

    For example, if the hard  drive  cluster  size  were 2 kb and one had
    100 files, each 10  bytes  long,  100  *  2  kb would the the minimum
    space requirement.  If  all  the  files  were  joined  only  100 * 10
    bytes would be  required,  and  then  round  up  to the cluster size.
    Thus  one  uses  200  kb,  the  other  2  kb.   Quite  a  substantial
    saving on space.

    Furthermore, I like  InEXE  configurations.   If  you only need a few
    bytes (less than 200 usually)  for  your configuration file (although
    64 kb is supported), you might  as  well include the configuration in
    your EXE file.  This  database  allows  you  to  do this.  It is also
    easier this way because you  don't  have  to access the configuration
    file and load the configuration.    It's already loaded (it's part of
    the code) and  you  simply  have  to  access  your  array  of char or
    access a string which is defined in your program.

    Commented demo files are provided.