FROM and EXTRACT commands. ---------------------------- In C-- there are very original commands, which are not present in other languages. It FROM and EXTRACT. The FROM command has syntax: = FROM ; By meeting this command at compilation, the compiler will load in output the file contents of the file , and will be the identifier beginnings of the loaded code. Here an example of use of this command from the file tinydraw.c--: byte palette [PALSIZE] = FROM "TINYDRAW.PAL"; // buffer for palette The EXTRACT command has syntax: = EXTRACT , , ; By meeting this command at compilation, the compiler will load in output the file from the file number byte equal from offset , and will be the identifier of a beginning of the loaded code. Here an example uses of this command: byte LIT128 = EXTRACT " 8X16. FNT ", 16*128, 16; byte LIT130 = EXTRACT " 8X16. FNT ", 16*130, 16;