What exactly is a file header?

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11 comments, last by Komal Shashank 9 years ago

Oh... OK, then. Thanks. I just wanted to make sure. smile.png

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Just be sure to notice one of the extremely important details often overlooked by beginners:


001Eh 1 byte Version number

File versions, or knowing what version the format uses, is vitally important.

Very frequently during development and during updates you may add a value, remove a value, or change a value's meaning. You absolutely need a version number in the file so you can update the data to whatever the latest and greatest needs to be, or to block a file from a future edition from loading if you won't recognize the contents.

OK, frob. I'll keep that in mind. Thank you very much.

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