This looks rather like ASN.1 value notation, for an information object set specification.
I suggest you feed it into an ASN.1 pretty printer, when it should become more readable. The "reverse engineering" would be to try to deduce the Information Object Class specification from the instances. This does not look too difficult, but formatting some of it first would make it easier. Once you have the IOC definition, you have a valid piece of ASN.1 specification, and ASN.1 tools would let you do quite a few things with it. John L -- Prof John Larmouth Larmouth T&PDS Ltd (Training and Protocol Development Services) 1 Blueberry Road Bowdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheshire WA14 3LS Tel: +44 161 928 1605 England Fax: +44 161 928 8069
