Lemmings DAT Tools README
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These tools will allow you to compress and decompress the data files from the 
DOS versions of Lemmings and Oh No! More Lemmings.


License
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.


System Requirements
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 - Windows 95 or newer


ChangeLog
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version 1.3.0 (21 Nov 2006)
 - GPL'd code
 - merged compressor and decompressor
 - [compressor] possible slight compression ratio increase
 - [compressor] compressed data is now verified
 - error codes replaced with message boxes
 - compression and decompression errors now result in silent terminate

compressor version 1.1.2 (10 Apr 2006)
 - default save extension is now '.dat'

decompressor version 1.2.0 (10 Apr 2006)
 - error message changes
 - rewrote code to be more modular
 - reduced memory usage

decompressor version 1.1.1 (17 Oct 2005)
 - data sections with incorrect checksums can now be saved
 - tiny error message bug fixed
 - smarter error checking
 - changed annoying default level naming

compressor version 1.1.1 (28 Aug 2005)
 - increased compression ratio

decompressor version 1.1.0 (15 Aug 2005)
 - replaced old open and save methods with generic Windows dialogs
 - added more error checking
 - name change from Lemmings Level Decompressor

compressor version 1.1.0 (28 Aug 2005)
 - fixed major bugs

compressor version 1.0.0 (27 Aug 05)
 - first release

decompressor version 1.0.0 (08 Jul 05)
 - first release
