Talk:WAD

Have you seen the UDS copyright info? Are you sure we can derive from it for the wiki? - Jdowland 11:36, 25 Mar 2005 (EST)


 * I don't see any text lifted from the UDS. As long as we're just using it for reference purposes and not copying anything, then there is no issue. Bloodshedder 11:48, 25 Mar 2005 (EST)

UNIX 'file' command
Here's the entry the UNIX file command uses to identify WADs:

1      string  =WAD            DOOM data, >0     string  =I              main wad >0     string  =P              patch wad >0     byte    x               unknown junk
 * 1) Thomas M. Ott (ThMO)

This could easily be elaborated on if someone wanted to :) - Jdowland 07:46, 7 Apr 2005 (EDT)

Cinder colour blazing eyes
Is WAD officially an acronym of "Where's All the Data", as the article states? And if so, could someone put a reference in the article? I always assumed that WAD was supposed to be the word 'wad', nothing more complex than that.-Ashley Pomeroy 14:31, 10 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * Doom Bible, page 67. Fredrik 16:26, 10 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * I've put this in the article itself; you should have done that, it would have saved me time.-Ashley Pomeroy 05:18, 12 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * If you didn't have time to do it, you could have left it for someone else :P -- Jdowland 08:42, 12 Jul 2005 (UTC)

restriction on lump names
Only the characters A-Z (uppercase), 0-9, and [ ] - _ should be used in lump names (an exception has to be made for some of the Arch-Vile sprites, which use "\").. Is this true, or badly-phrased? A reference to the limitation in the code would be nice. I thought anything which passed  was OK. -- Jdowland 22:29, 16 March 2006 (UTC)