Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!fk03+ From: fk03+@andrew.cmu.edu (Frank Eugene Kietzke) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Reverse engineering Message-ID: Date: 10 Oct 90 21:19:03 GMT Organization: Computing Systems, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 16 I have a commercial product that uses DBVista as its database engine. I would like to write database files for this product from data SELECTed from my informix database. I have figured out all of the data in the DBVista file except what appears to be some type of file describing header. Since the company that I purchased this product has refused to disclose the format of this file and now no longer supports the product, I am really stuck with trying to reverse engineer the database file. Is there anyone out there that can assist me in decoding this header? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Frank Kietzke | That was the "stun" setting, this is not.| |Carnegie-Mellon University | Lt. Commander Data, | |Data Communications | STNG, The Ensigns of Command. | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | I can hardly speak for myself, let alone for CMU Data Communications | -------------------------------------------------------------------------