Thank you very much for your suggestion. I'm going to make a REXX EXEC or an ASSEMBLER program to rebuild files from the tapes dumped by the VMFPLC.
By the way, we don't have rain here in Tokyo over a month. ;-) Minoru Massaki (M*M) On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:28:30 +0100, Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 1/10/06, Minoru Massaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'll attach a sample data dumped by the VMFPLC. >> Your comments and suggestions are very welcome. > >The format appears pretty simple. A 'PLCH' record that carries the FST >and then PLCD records of up to 4K that carry the data. So the first >file is $$DISK EXEC from 02/01/80 15:12, wich is F 80 and has 160 >records. Those take 3 full 4K blocks (2,3,4) and a short one (5). And >records 6 has the FST for the next file, $UPDTE MODULE. As you can see >in the data this variable format file nicely has halfword length in >front of each record. > >Should be very well doable on a rainy afternoon. > >Rob > >-- >Rob van der Heij rvdheij @ gmail.com >========================================================================
