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I seem to recall that you can do the opposite as well: stash some extra data at the end of a binary file. The 'tclkit' system used this to package up an executa

by davidw 3y ago

I seem to recall that you can do the opposite as well: stash some extra data at the end of a binary file. The 'tclkit' system used this to package up an executable with the scripts you wanted to ship.

giantrobot 3y ago
The Löve game development framework packages games like this. The games are nominally Alia scripts but if you cat a zip file to the end of the Lua script the framework lets you access assets in that zip as if they were in the game's cwd. It's a cool abstraction, during development you can have assets just living on the file system and then "deploy" a flat file that accesses those assets the same way.