From: SMTP%"carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU" 3-MAY-1994 16:30:35.50 To: EVERHART CC: Subj: Re: ods-2 reading Date: Tue, 03 May 1994 12:29:47 PST From: Carl J Lydick To: EVERHART@arisia.gce.com Message-ID: <0097DE08.924AF680.1@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU> Subject: Re: ods-2 reading In article <940429170620.90@arisia.gce.com>, EVERHART@arisia.gce.com writes: =Now that ods-2-reader is available in source (thanks, Carl Lydick) =it looks to me like reading ods-2 CDs on J Random machine/os =should be relatively easy to do, making the format much more usable =as an archival format. I'm currently working on a complete rewrite of the ods2-reader which should make ods-2 somewhat more useful as an archival format. The original one (getvms, written by Mark Bartelt and modified by Norman Wilson and, to a much smaller extent [i.e., exactly one bug-fix] myself) had assumptions about byte order of integers of various lengths scattered all through the code, and, as written, would allow you only to copy a file or get a listing of a directory. The new version (ODSLIB) localizes all assumptions about byte order to a single routine (and, thus far anyway, even that routine makes no assumptions about byte order; it figures it out itself) and will provide entry points using the same syntax as the Unix open(), read(), write(), lseek(), and a subset of the *dir() functions. A very preliminary (i.e., virtually no bells and whistles) version should be ready for testing in a week or so. Unless I run into some unforseen problems, a fairly complete version should be available by sometime this summer. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.