updating @cb and @ub

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Fairlight (Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:57:40 -0500):

> In the relative spacial/temporal region of
> Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 11:38:22AM -0500, Kenneth Brody achieved the
> spontaneous
> generation of the following:
> > Quoting VL (Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:49:59 -0600):
> > [...]
> > > What is the format of the key and data files?  How would I go about
> > > updating them with perl?  No indexes on @cb or @ub.
> >
> > http://www.fptech.com/Support/fpplustp.shtml
>
> Which omits some very important data.  Namely, how are you storing the
> uid and the date over multiple bytes?

Native byte order.

> I've tried both LSB and MSB, and
> neither comes out to the right solution on the uid.

Perhaps you're on a VAX?  :-)

> Example:  I have (in less) <E7>^C for my uid bytes.  Converted, that's
> \347 and \003 in octal (which was the easiest representation for /bin/
> echo to print out, and the fastest to work with in perl because you can
> just quote escape it.
>
> Converted, the closest I got was 823.  The actual uid is 999.

You converted it wrong.  0x3E7 = 999.

> How are these stored?  A little 2-3 line C snippet would be beneficial,
> as I'm mathematically challenged.  :)
>
> # Here's what I tried...
[...snip Perl script...]

Try this:

    $ bc  <<EOF
    ibase=16
    3E7
    EOF

[...]

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