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  Re: MDL format specification?  
From: Lutz Kretzschmar
Date: 3 May 2002 04:49:49
Message: <0lj4ducck6r42gf5dt01g75jm3895mea7i@4ax.com>
Hi Warp, you recently wrote in moray.win:

>   Where could I find a detailed specification of the MDL file format used
> by Moray?
You can't. It's a binary format and it's at version 78 (or so) and
it's just not worth keeping the documentation up to date for it. It's
basically a dump of the C++ data structures in their hierarchy, so
everytime something is adapted, the stream changes... I didn't to a
chunk-based format, so it's tough to parse.

May I ask why you asked? One of the reasons why we did the Plugin SDK
is so that one could get everything in and out of Moray without having
to read or write MDL files.

- Lutz
  email : lut### [at] stmuccom
  Web   : http://www.stmuc.com/moray


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