DAT and IDX files

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From: Joanna �wik�a
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 07:46

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Hello,

I am not a COBOL programmer, and I don't know much about this language :-)
but there is a big problem with it. I'm working on a program in C, which has
to process data contained in COBOL indexed files. I have .DAT and .IDX file,
and file specification, i.e.
5 FIELD1
10 FIELD11    9(2)
10 FIELD12    9(2)
etc.
Now my question: how to translate DAT files into text files? Is this a valid
DAT specification? Are there any non-commercials translators? If I want to
write a parser myself, what should I do?
Please, help me, I really don't know how to start. I looked for information
with Google, but I found nothing that could help me understand the way this
files are created and the format, in which they are written.

Thanks for your help,

Joan
asior@visionsoft.com.pl

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From: "Joanna �wik�a" <asior@biezanow.net>
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Subject: DAT and IDX files
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