Key File Meta Data

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Tue Oct 8 22:00:03 PDT 2019


That should be it precisely.

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On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 10:01:44PM +0000, Seijyaku thus spoke:
> Thank you! I really appreciate the help.
> 
> What are the "Forward freechain pointer" and "Backward freechain pointer" fields?  I assume that they hold the record number of the next /previous unused record?
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> On Monday, October 7, 2019 11:19 AM, Fairlight via Filepro-list <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
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> > filePro® Key File Specifications
> >
> > Deleted Record Key File Format
> >
> > Offset Length Contents
> > 0 1 "0" - deleted record
> > 1 1 "0" - reserved
> > 2 4 Forward freechain pointer
> > 6 4 Backward freechain pointer
> > 10 10 "0" - reserved
> >
> > Used Record Key File Format
> >
> > Offset Length Contents
> > 0 1 "1" - used record
> > 1 1 "0" - reserved
> > 2 2 Creation date (@CD) - see below
> > 4 2 Created by (@CB) - see below
> > 6 2 Update date (@UD)
> > 8 2 Updated by (@UB)
> > 10 2 Batch update date (@BD)
> > 12 8 "0" - reserved
> >
> > Notes:
> >
> > Dates are stored as the number of days since January 1, 1983.
> >
> > User ID's are stored as the user ID number from the /etc/passwd file
> > (UNIX/XENIX) or as "0" (MS_DOS)
> >
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> > On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 03:30:31PM +0000, Seijyaku via Filepro-list thus spoke:
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> > > Is there a document that describes the 20 bytes of metadata at the beginning of each record in the key file for FP 5.0.14D4?
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