RE: Deciphering a Save file

Hi Simon,

Check out WRKDBF at http://www.wrkdbf.com.  It has an "undelete" capability
built into it.

William K. Reger
Senior Project Manager
Levitz Furniture Corporation
Phone:  (561) 994-5114
E-mail:  breger@levitz.com



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Berendt [SMTP:rob@dekko.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 12:10 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Deciphering a Save file
> 
> Simon,
> 
> This is what we are trying to accomplish:
> > > We searched the archives on how to undelete records in a
> > > file and saw the tip on how to retrieve it from a save
> > > file.
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > Hello Rob,
> >
> > AFAIK the format of a save file is not externally documented.  Each
> record
> is 512 bytes long
> > including 4-bytes (??) of checksum data.  You would need to reverse
> engineer the structure.  Be
> > aware that the structure can change from one release to another.  What
> are
> you trying to
> > accomplish?  I assume you need to do this because you have a savefile
> that
> can't be restored
> > and you need the data from a file that is saved in the save file.  There
> is the QSRLSAVF API
> > that will return a list of the contents of the save file and is release
> independent.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Simon Coulter.
> >
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> > > Date: Fri, 30 Jul 99 08:42:19 -0500
> > > From: "Rob Berendt" <rob@dekko.com>
> > > To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > > Reply-To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > > Subject: Deciphering a Save file
> >
> > >
> > > << Personal Stationery >>
> > > Header  :
> > >
> > > Footer  :
> > > We searched the archives on how to undelete records in a
> > > file and saw the tip on how to retrieve it from a save
> > > file.
> > > Thank you very much.  My question is can a save file be
> > > analyzed much the same as a list API?  Are there offsets to
> > > objects and stuff like that?  Namely we wanted to determine
> > > the offset to the start of the data of a file stored within
> > > the save file.  Also the length of each record.  RTFM
> > > answers
> > > are acceptable if pointed to the proper place.
> > >
> > >
> > > Rob Berendt, CCP
> > > Group Dekko Services, LLC
> > > PO Box 2000
> > > Kendallville IN 46755
> > > Phone:  219-347-3100 ext 70560
> > > Fax:  219-349-2005
> > > email:  rob@dekko.com
> >
> 
> 
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