OT - swab and stuff -Re: xfer problems sco-sun

[Bill Vermillion]

On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 01:36:06AM -0500, Brian K. White thus spoke:
> Bill Vermillion wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 11:19:31PM -0500, J. P. Radley thus spoke:

...

> >> Would that it were that simple: it's the twenty byte header at the
> >> beginning *of each record* that needs bytes swapped.

> > It really os that simple.   Even though I dind't have to swap the
> > bytes I needed to convert out of a model III Profile into the new
> > on on a model 16.

> > There were no conversion tools available, ...

> Massively impractical to basically write my own xfer from
> scratch and get it to the point that it's bug free enough to
> run completely automated in order to process...

Since there was no xfer at all - I did the next best thing.

> cd /u/appl/filepro
> ls |wc -l
> 337
> cd 3disp
> ls |wc -l
> 2145

> err why am I guessing...
> find ./ ! -type d |wc -l
> 65517

I had fewer than that.  But I always seem to get called in when
days are darkest.

And if you don't have any tools you build what you need as you go
with what you have.

They were great learning experiences.  But I've learned enough over
the years, or at least I hope I have, that I don't want to have to
repeat it.   

It's not hard, but just tedious.

Bill


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