Re: Re: Re: Unpack for VMS binary files

In that case, there are probably endian differences. VMS is little endian and I think Solaris is big endian. Use 'V2 v12' (first V is capitalized, second is not) instead. That says two longs in VAX (little endian) order followed by 12 shorts in VAX order.

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print map { my ($m)=1<<hex($_)&11?' ':'';
$m.=substr('AHJPacehklnorstu',hex($_),1) }
split //,'2fde0abe76c36c914586c';
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Unpack for VMS binary files by maderman (Beadle) on Feb 19, 2003 at 04:36 UTC
You are god! The differences between little endian (VMS) and big endian (Solaris) and the format you provided made the difference. Many thanks... Now to try and convert VMS time to something readable (urrgg). Regards, Stacy.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Unpack for VMS binary files by Elian (Parson) on Feb 19, 2003 at 17:31 UTC
I wrote a pure-perl VMS time to Unix time converter at one point. I can't find the original, but courtesy of google I find it quoted in a mail reply here.	[reply]
Re: Unpack for VMS binary files by maderman (Beadle) on Feb 19, 2003 at 21:12 UTC
Ahh, with the VMS time, I have two parts: `3918795776 9926119 4118795776 9926119 23828480 9926120 223828480 9926120 423828480 9926120` [download] For the subroutine you mentioned, which is considered the low_long and high_long values? Regards, Stacy.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Unpack for VMS binary files by pfaut (Priest) on Feb 19, 2003 at 22:44 UTC
Re: Re: Re: Unpack for VMS binary files by maderman (Beadle) on Feb 20, 2003 at 00:38 UTC
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Re: Re: Unpack for VMS binary files by Elian (Parson) on Feb 20, 2003 at 15:04 UTC
Re: Re: Re: Unpack for VMS binary files by maderman (Beadle) on Feb 23, 2003 at 21:56 UTC
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