on 9/6/00 3:53 PM, John E. Barham at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Using the official "PDB Database format" doc I've more or less succeeded in
> writing a PDB file parser, but have been tripped up by the apparently
> undocumented presence of two null bytes following the record headers list.
> I'd be tempted to suggest that these are the "placeholder bytes" but
> according to the doc they are only present in the absence of any records.
> Can someone confirm this?
Correct - if there are no records, you need the 2 null bytes, otherwise, the
record list starts after the db header instead.
JB
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