On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 03:52:01AM -0600, Scott Klement wrote: > > The only thing IBM seems to want to document about save files is that > they have fixed-length 528 byte records.
That's a start. It's not compressed, either, since I translated it to ASCII with dd and saw some plain text and a whole bunch of zeros. > > I believe that a save file can contain any data. It's purpose is to be a > disk file with the same semantics as a tape or diskette file. (i.e. > sequential only, fixed-size blocks, etc) Right. I pretty much figured out it was the AS/400 equivalent of a .tar That's part of the reason I'd like to hack it. (Actually, the proper way would be to extend cpio to handle this archive format. ;-) > > What you REALLY want to know is what command was used to populate the save > file, and what format that command writes data in. If the save file was > created using the SAVLIB command or SAVOBJ command, then you'll want to > know the format of data created with those commands. And that format is > release-specific, and AFIAK undocumented. How can it be release specific if people are posting save files for Open Source AS/400 stuff on the web? Maybe it's backwards compatible, with new releases having new features that are ignored by older versions, but that's fine with me--tar is like that. > > You're probably better off doing what other people suggest and just > restoring the SAVF to an AS/400, and then transferring the source out of > it directly. Hehehe. Undoubtedly, but I don't like things like logic and practicality stop me when I'm on a roll ;-) > > On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice wrote: > > > Just a question, anyone know of documentation of the IBM save file format? > > A pointer to ibm.com would be handy (I can't even seem to find their old > > AS/400 library either... they seem to have replaced it with this new-fangled > > thing with less information. Maybe I'm just being dense.). > > > > I've run accross some Open Source AS/400 programs which I'd like to poke at > > on Linux, but I gotta get them out of the box first ;-) > > > > -Jason > _______________________________________________ This is the Linux 5250 Development Project (LINUX5250) mailing list To post a message email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/linux5250 or email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/linux5250.
