ancient version compatibility

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, May 13, 2019, Brian K. White via Filepro-list wrote:
>Yes to get the raw data is simple.
>Awk has a simple syntax for defining fixed-length fields & records, and it
>would be straight-forward to read a map file to get those field lengths and
>names automatically, and let that tear through all your files by itself, and
>generate the equivalent csv, xml, json, sqlite, mysql, whatever.

I wrote some programs to do just this about 30 years ago, parsing
the binary FilePro header in the key file to eliminate deleted
records and such.  These were probably written in 'C' or perl at
that time.  It would probably be easier today for me to write new
ones from scratch in python than to find my original programs.

Bill
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