FilePro key file 20 byte header format

[Brian White]

I originally sent this only privately, but screw it. A while back I
scrounged around in the wayback machine and came up with most file formats,
including a few no-longer-documented details about old versions. The txt
files in the google drive folder below are a distillation of that.

On Wed, Sep 11, 2019, 1:35 PM Brian K. White <bw.aljex at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/10/19 7:19 PM, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list wrote:
> > I may have to extract FilePro data to tab-delimited files, and
> > can't find my old 'C' or perl programs that did this.  I don't
> > remember the structure of the Key files header records.  The only
> > one that I think is significant is the first byte or so that IIRC
> > indicates whether the record contains data or is deleted.
> >
> > Bill
>
> The references for some of the older versions of the formats have been
> removed from fp's web site.
> A while back I scrounged everything I could find from archive.org, and
> then hand-transcribed the text out from all the html and javascript and
> junk.
>
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=18-LGU69TZsvRiIoO3UcJQRI9hTg3XB2F
>
> The current versions of these are still available from the fp web site,
> at least if you have a developer or reseller login, but if you are
> possibly dealing with 4.8 or earlier data, some things changed and
> aren't documented any more.
>
> These were originally html pages with all kinds of site headers and
> javascript and formatting and analytics junk in there, meaning just
> loading the page in a local browser would generate a bunch of requests
> back to fp's website, so I went through and hand-edited to get just the
> text. I still have the originals locally if you want just for reference,
> but I didn't want to be guilty of publicly redistributing those
> verbatim, so I didn't put them in a public shared folder. But these are
> at least partially my own work simply documenting that-which-is, even if
> it's 95% just transcribing their documents.
>
> --
> bkw
>
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