[comp.databases] Reverse engineering

fk03+@andrew.cmu.edu (Frank Eugene Kietzke) (10/11/90)

I have a commercial product that uses DBVista as its database engine.  I
would like to write database files for this product from data SELECTed
from my informix database.  I have figured out all of the data in the
DBVista file except what appears to be some type of file describing
header.  Since the company that I purchased this product has refused to
disclose the format of this file and now no longer supports the product,
I am really stuck with trying to reverse engineer the database file.  Is
there anyone out there that can assist me in decoding this header?

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