On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Derek J. Kalweit wrote: > Brian: > I'm not sure... I can't seem to make that data work by filling in > any known win32 time-related structures, or by converting it to a large > number indicating a time(not even by flipping the bit-ordering). With > more known values, it may be easier to decipher... > All Win32 structures are defined in full in the MSDN > library(searchable on-line at http://msdn.microsoft.com/). Win32 API > calls are documented in full in the same place. As to how to call this > from Perl, I'm not sure. I used Perl a bit on *nix, but I've only barely > touched ActivePerl on Win32... I would hope there would be a module you > could call win32 functions through-- or at least one you can use COM > objects, in which case you can create a simple COM object in VC++ or > even VB to wrap the win32 API functions you need. It would probably be > easier to directly manipulate the binary, if you can decipher it...
I was halfway through trying to decipher it, and then the vendor released a patch for the problem we were trying to hack around. :) I guess that's the way things go. Thanks for your help. -- Brian Mathis Direct Edge http://www.directedge.com -- For information on unsubscribing from this list, please visit http://rochester.pm.org