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The Lounge War Stories Do you trust your users to follow your instructions? Post 302954183 by gull04 on Saturday 5th of September 2015 06:09:50 AM

09-05-2015

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Hi Guys,

In a long time in this industry I've seen quite a lot, when it comes to data recovery two incidents come to mind.

The first was when a customer asked me to recover some data from an 8" floppy disk if I could.

I gave them specific instructions about making a copy and packing it for collection, when the package arrived in the office for my attention - it contained a photo copy of the original disk along with a list of files that they wanted me to recover.

The second was somewhat later and was a 5 1/4" floppy from the same customer, it arrived with a note attached saying that it was the only copy they had - the note was on a compliments slip that had been carefully stapled to the disk.

If I have learned anything in the business, it's when you think that you've made things idiot proof - you find out that the idiots have been upgraded. Smilie

Regards

Dave

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PX_GET_DATA_LONG(3)					     Library Functions Manual					       PX_GET_DATA_LONG(3)

NAME

       PX_get_data_long -- Get long data field

SYNOPSIS

       #include <paradox.h>

       int PX_get_data_long(pxdoc_t *pxdoc, char *data, int len, long *value)

DESCRIPTION

       Converts a data field as it stored in the database file into a long integer for the host architecture. You should use this function instead
       of accessing the data directly.

       data points to the start of the data field in the record. It must be calculated by summing up all field length before the field to  operate
       on and add it to the base pointer of the record.

	      Note:

	      This function is deprecated and obsolete if PX_retrieve_record(3) is used.

RETURN VALUE

       Returns 0 if the value is NULL, -1 in case of an error and 1 otherwise.

SEE ALSO

       PX_get_data_byte(3), PX_get_data_short(3), PX_get_data_double(3), PX_get_data_alpha(3)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Uwe Steinmann uwe@steinmann.cx.

															       PX_GET_DATA_LONG(3)