<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Those two bytes are the result of a fairly benign bug (somebody used "sizeof" > when they meant to use "offsetof", and some pointer math was off by 2 as a > result of that).
My parser failed because it sequentially reads through the pdb file instead of seek()ing to the record data offsets. I wanted to know the legality of the bytes since I'm aiming to get a binary exact read/write cycle, format bugs and all. > For the most part, it doesn't matter if those 2 bytes are there or not. A > properly written prc/pdb file parser should be completely oblivious to their > existance. However, when you beam an application, the wireline format of the > application is the same as that in the .prc file, and the Exchange Manager fully > expects those two bytes to be there, and fails if they aren't. So, either the bug isn't so "benign" or the Exchange Manager isn't a "properly written" parser?! ;) Thanks for the info. -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/
