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Originally Posted by Nate the great
Speaking of the REB1100, do you know where I can find out more about the formatting it uses?
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What are you looking for? There's
a great tool here called
rbmake that has some pages on deconstructing the file format.
It's the tool I use to make RB files.
The RB format is basically compressed HTML with a generated index file. There are a bunch of ugly hacks contained in it to generate a pop-up menu. That page I linked has a lot more about it.
There are some tricks that I've found for the HTML -- the biggest one is that to have the cover show as the first page, you need to wrap it in
<center> tags. Yes,
<center>.
Another is that the screen size is 2 pixels larger on the REB1100 than on the old Rocket. The hardware can do 4 grays, I think, but the firmware is limited to 1. (You're better off pre-converting any images, too.) Any link that passes from one page turn to another is broken. I'm sure that there are a few more -- feel free to PM me about anything.
If you're serious about creating hand-edited files in RB format, you should definitely use the tools from the
rbmake project. It's both Windows and Linux, although the very latest version is not compiled for Windows (I use Linux, so I can't help you if you use Windows.) You can use the related project files to explode them, build dictionaries, etc.
It's web-aware, and does a LOT of amazing things. Once you get a script well-written, it does just about anything to a source. Like the Rocket/REB1100 it was way ahead of it's time.
If you use Linux, and you're looking for an upload/download tool, you need
rebcomm,
which you can find here..
m a r
ps: a little off topic?
