Re: DAT and IDX files

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From: Ken Mullins
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 16:08

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the microfocus file handler can be called directly from C (or other
languages) to access mf isam files...see the microfocus web site for
samples...

kenmullins
newnan, ga USA



"Joanna �wik�a" <asior@biezanow.net> wrote in message
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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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