Re: inherited cobol app., can't run (xm.exe)?

On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 23:17:55 -0800 (PST) KJ <n_o_s_p_a__m@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

:>* Are the data files parseable without knowing the record definitions?
:>I tried a tool from Siber which did a so-so job of displaying the
:>data. I'm sure there's some rules to doing it, but I surely don't know
:>them.

Perhaps, if you know something about the data.

:>* Is there a tutorial online where I can learn how to read data
:>properly out of these files? I can see some things which look familiar
:>in there, but others do not (I'm using a hex text editor -- notepad++
:>actually)

Did they not provide you with the original COBOL source code?

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