Re: FAA ATA-100 CDROM Data Effective August 8, 2002

[Digital ChoreoGraphics <dcg@softcafe.net>]

The fixed field data formats used in the ATA-100 datasets 
were probably generated from early generation software - 
e.g. FORTRAN format statements, or COBOL.  
The fixed fields lend themselves well to FORTRAN I/O. 

If you dont have a FORTRAN compiler, 
the simplest solution would be to simulate the FORTRAN 
format statement via a C function call: input each record 
as a fixed length string, then extract each fixed length 
field (as specified by a table), and pass it to the 
appropriate 'ASCII to value' C function selected via the 
same lookup table (i.e. format string).

- Don 

At 07:28 PM 7/31/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>"D.F.S." <dfs@xmission.com> writes:
>
>> I a lot of ways the data formats and presumptions shown
>> are "mainframeish"
>
>Actually, they use Oracle on Windows. At least that's what the ATA-120
>people told me in Oshkosh this Sunday.
>
>Ari.
>
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