Re: [MI400] Analyzing save files from a PC -- revisited

["James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave McKenzie wrote:
> 
> What specific info do you want to get?
> 
> As a preliminary hint, pathnames in save files are stored in Unicode (2
> bytes per char: the first is x00 and the second is ASCII) and preceded
> by a 2-byte binary length in bytes.

Looking at a couple of different "SAV" save files, of known content,
using Norton DE, I couldn't find anything in recognizable Unicode. I
randomly tried converting a couple of interesting-looking byte strings
into EBCDIC; they came out "QSRDSSPC.1" and "L/D OBJECT DESCRIPTOR" On
the other hand, I could fairly easily find recognizable file content,
scattered around.

I guess I'll try putting them into flat database files, to see if they
look like anything in QuestView next. Any other suggestions?

And to reiterate, I'm interested in getting the directory tree of the contents.

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