xfer problems sco-sun

[Bill Vermillion]

On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 08:52:15AM -0500, Tim Fischer thus spoke:

> Is there any way you can provide the specifications on the
> header formats so that we can try to work around this issue?

> As was stated previously, I am supposed to be switching over to
> Solaris this weekend, but I do not have any way to convert my
> data.

All the technical info is at fpTech.com.   Go to support and then
technical info.  All this information has been available since
the earliest days even when it was only a dial up bulletin board.

FP has been always good about that.


> -Tim
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com 
> > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> > Of Kenneth Brody
> > Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 8:39 AM
> > To: FilePro Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: xfer problems sco-sun
> > 
> > "Jean-Pierre A. Radley" wrote:
> > > 
> > > Bill Vermillion propounded (on Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 
> > 08:18:23PM -0500):
> > [...]
> > > | Just split the each record into two pieces, swap the 
> > heard, and add 
> > > | the rest.  I did something similar a very long time ago 
> > before the 
> > > | xfer program existed.  As I recall it's just the first 20 
> > bytes that 
> > > | need to be swapped.
> > > 
> > > Would that it were that simple: it's the twenty byte header at the 
> > > beginning *of each record* that needs bytes swapped.
> > 
> > Well, he did say (at leat I think he said) to swap the header 
> > of each record.  (Though you need to not swap the first two 
> > bytes, as they are single bytes and not a 2-byte word.  And, 
> > don't forget to take care of deleted record differently, as 
> > they have a different header structure which includes 4-byte words.)
> > 
> > And, don't forget about the headers of screens, reports, and indexes.
> > (But don't swap the entries in the header that are single 
> > bytes, and not 2-byte words.  And don't forget to handle the 
> > 4-byte-words.)
> > 
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