Instructions to parse c-isam file

Posted February 25th, 2009 by mcculls

Hi,

I have a c-isam .dat file where I need to see the data. I assumed a parser would be the way to go. But this does not seem to be easy.

I try a manual load and get a 'System error 2'. Before that I got a 'system error 13'. None of these errors make any sense. Somehow I dont think this is going to be as easy as I would have hoped.

Maybe some step by step instructions exist somewhere?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

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Hi mcculls, The errors you

On February 25th, 2009 jterrell said:

Hi mcculls,

The errors you are getting usually indicate that you have the DATA file but not the INDEX file.

You must have both the C-ISAM data file (usually has a .DAT file extension) and the index file (usually has a .IDX file extension) located in the same folder. For example, if the data file resides in c:\MyFiles, the index file must also reside in the c:\MyFiles folder.

Please let us know if this gets you past the errors, or not.

- Jo

Thanks Jo but I still get a

On February 25th, 2009 mcculls said:

Thanks Jo but I still get a System Error 13 even when I have the .dat and the .idx files in the same directory.

RE: ...but I still get a

On February 25th, 2009 jterrell said:

Hi mcculls,

Did the .DAT and .IDX files come directly from a working application, so you know that one or both of the files is not "corrupt"?

How were the files transferred/downloaded to your workstation? And are you confident that the file(s) were not "corrupted" during the transfer/download?

- Jo