From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Read binary and pack/unpack functions ? Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:55:32 -0700 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <87u00sh0yz.fsf@zogzog.gnu-rox.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1164153429 25672 80.91.229.2 (21 Nov 2006 23:57:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:57:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 22 00:57:05 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 1GmfU8-0003fT-SO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:57:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmfU8-0005fF-DK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:57:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GmfTr-0005as-Hz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:56:47 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GmfTq-0005Y1-2K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:56:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GmfTp-0005Xs-R2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:56:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GmfTp-0005Zj-SO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:56:46 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GmfTh-0003Yk-1i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:56:37 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:56:37 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:56:37 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) In-Reply-To: <87u00sh0yz.fsf@zogzog.gnu-rox.org> 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:38869 Archived-At: Xavier Maillard wrote: > 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 ? Are you familiar with Emacs coding systems? -- Kevin