Re: Converting from an ancient BASIC to new database

On Sat, 4 Aug 2007 16:35:58 -0400, "Tom Lake" <tlake@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

>> I doubt it - it appears to be Qbasic
>
>I meant that the company that wrote the BASIC
>program (not Microsoft that wrote the interpreter)
>that created the file used their own format, not a
>recognized standard.
>
>>>
>>> Tom Lake
>>>
>>>
>> Of course I did - it isn't in ASCII - most of the DATA is, so I could 
>> probably, with much effort, extract the data by hand
>
>If the unreadable parts come in length of 2, 4, 8 or 16 bytes, they could
>be numbers in either MS or IEEE format.
>
Somewhere I thought the OP said QuickBasic 2.  

Lengths of 2 or 4 could be integers.  Lengths of 4 or 8 could be
floats in probably MS format.  Did QB2 even sup****t IEEE?  

I don't know of any length 16 standard binary format sup****ted by QB2.
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