Re: Informix v2.x binary file format

We have an old Informix program which contains all our customer information, this has recenly crashed and now the programms have become corrupt (the program is no longer suppoter on informix and has now moved to MS-Access) we have the data but the programs are DEAD. Thanks for the info I should be able to reclaim the data now. Regards, Steve Naughton steve@notaclue.demon.co.uk sjnaughton@pap.co.uk steve@daval.force9.co.uk Nils Myklebust wrote in message <35e6cd3f.30381734@news.newmedia.no>... >On Sat, 22 Aug 1998 18:58:58 +0100, "Stephen John Naughton" ><steve@notaclue.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >>Anyone know of information on the binary file format of *.dat and *.idx >>files for Informix V2.x > >I assume this is the sql-version of the engine. >I don't know about .idx files, but you should hardly need them for any >purpose. >The .dat files are fixed length fields and therfore records. >Each record has a line feed as the last byte (after the data) except >deleted records where this last byte is 0 hex. >The format of each field is standard ascii characters for char fields, >a types corresponding to the C-type on the machine for smallint, >integer and float. Decimals are in a special base 100 format that I >don't know the details about. > >What do you need this for? If you said someone might be able to >suggest solutions to what you want to do. Possibly other than reading >the raw data. > > >Nils Myklebust >NM Data AS >Norway >E-mail: Nils.Myklebust@nmdata.com >FAQ at: http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html >(Now with ODBC info under "Third party products".)