Re: [MI400] Analyzing SAV save files from a PC

[Dave McKenzie <davemck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why don't you zip up the save file and email it to me, and I'll take a
look at it.

In general, each directory is preceded by an FFFFFFFF record (the one
with 'QSRDSSPC.1').  So you can get to the next directory by stepping to
the next FFFFFFFF rec, using the "Number of recs to next FFFFFFFF rec"
field at offset xCC.

--Dave

On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 12:55, James H H Lampert wrote:
> Okay, I've got my analysis program started climbing around the offsets for
> a SAV *SAVF, and I found the directory path, and the filename, poking
> around with QuestView. But a couple of interesting things showed up:
> 1. When I found the LNK structure, it had a nonzero "Offset to next LNK
> structure," but there was no other LNK to be found, and
> 2. When I found the filename, everything but the first character turned
> out to indeed be straightforward UNICODEd ASCII, but the first character
> of the name, which I had expected to be a capital "A" (ASCII 41 hex,
> Unicode 0041 hex), turned ot to be 099D hex, which is some Bengali letter,
> and the name length, which I expected to be either 12 characters or 24
> bytes, turned out to be 988372765 (3AE95F1D hex).
> 
> Then, too, while this sample save file contains but a single *STMF saved
> from the root directory, what should I expect to find when I look at one
> that's more complex? I don't see anything about "Offset to next DIR."
> 
> --
> JHHL