Editing Textdata textlist.dat

'''<code>textlist.dat</code>''' (1,991 bytes) is the packer manifest for the [[BIN textdata]] archive.

== Format ==

Line 1 = file count (<code>158</code>), then one filename per line, in archive order.

== Role ==

Used only by the build tool that packs the <code>textdata</code> folder into <code>textdata.bin</code>/<code>textdatah.bin</code> — '''not read at runtime'''. However, the packed archive itself stores this exact same list as '''entry 0''' of the packed <code>.bin</code> (the same trick used by [[BIN npcdata]] with <code>npclist.dat</code>), so the running client can look files up by name via <code>Archive_FindEntryByName</code>. The server-side asset repacker relies on this: re-extracting entry 0 recovers the manifest needed to rebuild a byte-exact archive.

Note: <code>textdata</code>'s manifest uses <code>\r\n</code> line endings (vs. <code>npcdata</code>'s <code>\n</code>) — the list must be preserved verbatim when repacking, not regenerated.

== See also ==

* [[BIN textdata]]
* [[textdata textdata.ver]]