[ABE.pm] A coupla' more Qs

Phil Lawrence phil at five-lawrences.com
Thu Oct 21 08:29:24 CDT 2004


On Oct 13, 2004, at 23:02, Faber Fedor wrote:
> 2. I HATE MAINFRAMERS AND THEIR FIXED-LENGTH RECORDS! (This ML isn't
> spidered by Google, is it? :-)  Does anyone have a good tool for
> determining where and how long fixed length records are?  I've been 
> using
> the unpack() function and doing a trial and error (thank Ghu for
> ptkdb!).


Yes.  I recall writing a mainframe data-dictionary parser.  If you have 
access to the data dictionary, I might be able to help out.

prl



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