[pilot-db-list] Understanding the db format

[Norman W. <nd...@nw...>]

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Hi,

I'm working on a PilotManager[1] conduit for pilot-db. There seem to
be a few fields in the appinfo block that aren't documented in the
most recent db_docs.html. I wonder if someone could fill in the blanks
for me.

There seems to be a chunk type 2 in the appinfo block. It appears to have
three UInt16 values followed by more stuff. The "more stuff" is sometimes
a list of null-terminated strings that are the values for list fields.

chunk 2
        2
        16
        6, 3, 3072
                one,two,3

But if the list is a "link" it's clearly something else:

chunk 3
        2
        36
        7, 19823, 30313
                es,.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Similarly, there seems to be a field type "6" in records. It appears to be
a single UInt8. My guess is that it's the ordinal value of the list value
selected from the ... corresponding? ... chunk 2 block from the header.

I'll probably have more questions when I try syncing some of the other new
field types (like script and linked).

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

[1] http://www.moshpit.org/pilotmgr/
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