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From: cks@white.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: uerf data file format
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Date: 26 Jul 89 20:52:59 GMT
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 Well, I decided to do some more digging and hacking, and lo and
behold managed to find out the file format. To quote from my brand new
error log printer:

/*
 * Error records are highly peculiar. An error record is composed of four
 * parts:
 *
 * 	- a struct el_rhdr
 * 	- a struct el_sub_id
 * 	- a per-type information structure (note that these can sometimes
 * 	  exceed the normal size limits on their structures; in
 * 	  particular, the ascii messages from startup can be larger than
 * 	  256 bytes).
 * 	- a four-byte unique (well, hopefully unique) end-of-record
 * 	  marker, namely "%~<^".
 */

[Send me email if you want a copy of the program; if there's
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