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> From: Steve Richter <srichter@AutoCoder.com>
> > From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org>
> > > they contain (among other things):
> > > DATA-LENGTH BIN(4) POS(13);  /* INCL. LENGTH OF DATA-HANDLE */
> > > DATA-HANDLE CHAR(16) POS(65);
> > > DATA CHAR(*) POS(81);
> >
> > Interesting.
> >
> > So the first 80 bytes are actually the "handle header".  If there are
more
> > than 1 handles, the 80 byte header for the next handle immed follows the
> > of the preceeding handle.  Or the handle header has an offset pointer to
> the
> > next handle.
>
> No, I think you can only have one handle.


I was wrong about this one. The structure is:
6 x00 followed by
n char(10) fields (one for each handle), where the last 4 chars contain
a bin(4) DATA-LENGTH (incl handle). when the 80 chars are full,
all the data is moved down to make room, so the 80 chars is not fixed.





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