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To: Stacy Holmes who wrote (2985)	4/24/1999 4:02:00 PM
From: Richard Estes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4056

Don't know. But I am sure there are many for the 255 directory format. I don't know if they are available for 2000 directory format. I am sure Sean Smith will have an answer.

To: Stacy Holmes who wrote (2985)	4/24/1999 4:08:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4056

Stacy, tdfltd.com fmlabs.com Sean

To: Stacy Holmes who wrote (2985)	4/27/1999 9:22:00 AM
From: Gary Lyben	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4056

You can buy a read only library from Equis. It's on their web site. Gary

To: Stacy Holmes who wrote (2985)	4/28/1999 7:23:00 PM
From: Sword	Respond to of 4056

I wrote one long ago. I'll try to dig it up. It's really not too difficult. Just look at the binary file with something like visual studio and you can get the format pretty easily. The numbers are stored in BCD. -Sword

To: Stacy Holmes who wrote (2985)	4/28/1999 7:31:00 PM
From: Sword	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4056

Stacy, Sean: As I recall from over a decade ago, the MS file format stores the number of records as the first entry. I believe that it is in simple CHR format. Then it has a bunch of information, like whether or not the file has open, close, last, high, low, etc. Also the name of the security. Then the data in BCD format. To convert to floating point is not too hard, especially since you know that the data will never be negative! It's kind of fun to decrypt the information without the manuals. That is how I did it. My C routine read the data in a snap. -Sword