Re: [MI400] Analyzing save files from a PC -- revisited

[Dave McKenzie <davemck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Did you see my response to your last post?  (I screwed up the headers, so it 
didn't have a subject.)  It's in the archives at:

 http://archive.midrange.com/mi400/200408/msg00014.html

You may find the SEESAVF utility I mentioned handy for viewing save files 
while they're still on the AS/400.  It shows both hex and characters (EBCDIC 
and Unicode).

--Dave

On Saturday 21 August 2004 15:35, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
> Dave McKenzie wrote:
> > What specific info do you want to get?
> >
> > As a preliminary hint, pathnames in save files are stored in Unicode (2
> > bytes per char: the first is x00 and the second is ASCII) and preceded
> > by a 2-byte binary length in bytes.
>
> Looking at a couple of different "SAV" save files, of known content,
> using Norton DE, I couldn't find anything in recognizable Unicode. I
> randomly tried converting a couple of interesting-looking byte strings
> into EBCDIC; they came out "QSRDSSPC.1" and "L/D OBJECT DESCRIPTOR" On
> the other hand, I could fairly easily find recognizable file content,
> scattered around.
>
> I guess I'll try putting them into flat database files, to see if they
> look like anything in QuestView next. Any other suggestions?
>
> And to reiterate, I'm interested in getting the directory tree of the
> contents.