Forum :: Programming :: need help reading and understanding map data

im about to start my map editor for my game project..... and would like to be able to read/write to the orig endless map files.

is there like a encodeng in the file string?

i guess what i am asking is if some one would post the basic breakdown of whats going on in this file.

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