PSIONICS FILE - RESOURCE.FMT
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Format of Resource files
Last modified 1994-03-28
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Resource files are uses to hold information for a program which does not
need to be held in the program itself. Two reasons for doing this are:
- the contents of the resource file do not take up process memory when
  not being used;
- the resource file can be changed on a per-language basis without changing
  the rest of the program.

A resource file may be standard or compressed. This description only applies
to standard files. The format of a standard file is:

  Offset  0 (word): offset of index table
  Offset  2 (word): length in bytes of index table

The index table is an array of words, giving the offsets of each resource in
order. By convention resources are numbered from 1 upwards. If the table holds
T entries, there are T-1 resources (1 to T-1); entry N is the offset of the
end of resource N-1 as well as the offset of resource N, and entry T is the
offset of resource T-1, and so should equal offset 0 of the file.

For example, if a resource file contains two resources of length A and B
respectively, the file contains:

    Offset 0 (word)    : A+B+4
    Offset 2 (word)    : 6
    Offset 4 to A+3    : value of resource 1
    Offset A+4 to A+B+3: value of resource 2
    Offset A+B+4 (word): 4
    Offset A+B+6 (word): A+4
    Offset A+B+8 (word): A+B+4