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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