Maybe it rains more in Holland (I think I remember Rob being a .nl person?) - the problem looks to my illiterate eye like something Rob would do in a pipe before your assembler program was much past the standard linkage stage <g>. No offense meant to your assembler programming skills of course, but he IS a master plumber!
Shalom, Shimon (who is VERY happy that it has started raining here again!) Quoting Minoru Massaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > >======================================================================== >
