Does any one recognize this binary data storage format

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Tue Aug 9 16:33:54 EDT 2005


On 2005-08-09, geskerrett at hotmail.com <geskerrett at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I can posted records as it will take up to much space. But all
> three phone numbers are stored in 8 bytes with null bytes (ie.
> 00) stored in the leading positions (ie. the left hand side)
>
> I do have some more examples;
>
> I have inserted the leading null bytes and seperated with spaces for
> clarity.
>
> Ex #1)   333-3333
> Hex On disk: 00 00 00 80 6a 6e 49 41
>
> Ex #2) 666-6666
> Hex On disk: 00 00 00 80 6a 6e 59 41

So there's only a 1-bit different between the on-disk
representation of 333-3333 and 666-6666.

That sounds pretty unlikely.  Are you 100% sure you're looking
at the correct bytes?

-- 
Grant



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