parsing key file

[Fairlight]

You said 40 in one place, 20 everywhere else.  Any significance to the
40, or just a brain fart?

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On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 11:34:00AM -0700, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> It's been decades since I had to do this.  I don't remember the
> details of the 40 character header other than the first character
> indicates whether the record is active or has been deleted.
> 
> Beyond that, the key (and data) records have no delimiter
> separating the records, but are fixed length.  The key records
> are 40 + length of all fields so require reads of explicit
> length.  In python this might be:
> 
> fh = open('pathtokeyfile', 'rb')
> n = 20 + reclength
> for rec in fh.read(n):
> 	hdr = rec[0:20]
> 	data = rec[20:]
> 	...
> 
> On Tue, May 25, 2021, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list wrote:
> >Can anyone tell me what is the BOR or EOR markers?
> >
> >I could save time if I know exactly what the first 40 or characters are or if
> >there is a delimiter/marker I can reference to split the segments.
> >
> >I put together sa simple script but it turns out that there is more to it
> >than I thought - Got to do some coding on some other stuff but I will
> >come back to this in a few ...  hope you guys have an answer for me by then!
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
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