From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xavier Maillard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Read binary and pack/unpack functions ? Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:46:44 +0100 Organization: GNU's Not UNIX! Message-ID: <87u00sh0yz.fsf@zogzog.gnu-rox.org> Reply-To: Xavier Maillard NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164149259 12728 80.91.229.2 (21 Nov 2006 22:47:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:47:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 21 23:47:35 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmeOR-0004ps-Nz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:47:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmeOQ-00029h-UP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:47:06 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GmeOG-00028x-8k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:46:56 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GmeOE-00028G-Mv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:46:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmeOE-00028B-II for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:46:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [62.4.16.102] (helo=kraid.nerim.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GmeOE-00005w-HA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:46:54 -0500 Original-Received: from zogzog.gnu-rox.org (unknown [213.41.184.169]) by kraid.nerim.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B5E040F59 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:46:51 +0100 (CET) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Jabber-ID: zedek@im.lolica.org User-Agent: Rmail in GNU Emacs 22.0.90.1 on GNU/Linux X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38868 Archived-At: Hi, Iam trying to write a mode to read/write the Palm MemoDB file based on the described format. The MemoDB is well documented and thus, it is not that difficult to build a parser against it. Where iactually fail is at reading binary data from the file and packing binary data into a more "neutral" format based on sexp. Do you know any pack/unpack-like functions for GNU Emacs ? Regards -- Xavier