Contents of Savf

[Glen Hoffman]

Is there a way of displaying the contents of a savf. I don't want to
restore the whole object just to see the contents.

Thanks

[Lee Dolby]

Glen,

DSPSAVF display the contents of a save file.

Regards,

Lee S Dolby

Glen Hoffman <ghof...@ionet.net> wrote in message
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[Lee Dolby]

Glen,

Sorry (!) ... I guess you want to view the contents of a file or something
in the
save file ? ... There is a QSRLSAVF API (but that just really mirrors the
functionality of DSPSAVF). Without restoring the object I'm stuck on this
one.
I've just been through the softcopy library and found nothing. I'm pretty
sure that the
save file format is undocumented.

[brunns]

There is quite a nice utility for this at
http://www.midrangecomputing.com/ftp/prog/95/B951102.txt

Cheers,
Simon B.
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[Dave McKenzie]

Assuming you want to see the contents of objects, as opposed to just a
list of what objects are in the save file (which DSPSAVF does), I'm
emailing you a little utility called SEESAVF that displays savf recs
in raw hex bytes. To find the saved objects you have to do a little
experimenting and some guesswork, since the internal structure of save
files isn't documented, but it's not too hard to find stuff like
database records.

BTW, if you want to get at savf contents programmatically, you can
read a savf with (for example) RPG by defining a disk file with a
record length of 528, and overriding the filename to the savf (if it's
not the same name already). This is how those utilities that copy
between save files and database files work. What you read will again
be the raw bytes. You have to do a little reverse-engineering to find
the bytes you're interested in.

--Dave

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 08:00:16 -0600, "Glen Hoffman" <ghof...@ionet.net>
wrote:

[Ted Barry]

I've been collecting this stuff for years now and didn't realize I had this.
WRKSAVFOBJ is a pretty cool command.

brunns <brunnsN...@beer.com.invalid> wrote in message
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[Lptoro]

I think the best way to read contents of a savefile in a program is with the
API QSRLSAVF. Use this link to get to the manual with more information:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/DOCNUM/SC41-5850-03/CCONTENTS

>Subject: Re: Contents of Savf
>From: "Ted Barry" tba...@centralsan.dst.ca.us
>Date: 03/02/2000 5:36 PM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <38beeccd$0$11...@wodc7nh0.news.uu.net>