On 23 November 2014 at 00:26, Gareth France
wrote:
> I have already been peeking in hex editors. I have picked out 80% of the
> data and been able to read it into perl (since posting this). However I
> have noticed some characters which appear to act as boundries between
> certain fields which ar
It seems that it isn't a hex file as such but mostly is a readable text
file containing special characters which are not in the standard
keyboard layout. With regards to figuring out the values that change
there are several tests which are done and additional information needs
to be stored such
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On 22/11/14 22:12, Gareth France wrote:
> I am a PAT tester and have found over my time in the role that the
> software is a total rip off! If you purchase a digital camera,
> scanner, webcam or anything else that interfaces with a PC you get
> the
It is readable, but no more so than if you just load it into perl using
binmode. I'm currently struggling with identifying the different fields
within the data. I've been plucking them out manually which is fine for
the first half then I find some of them are variable length and I have
no way o
On 23/11/14 18:21, Gareth France wrote:
Remember pass may be represented by a single letter or number (0 fail,
1 pass etc). The date was 03-JUN-14.
I01022S12111
H172008021S12111
I imagine the time and date is always 'NOW', as the results are intended
to be processed in real time.
The time and date is whenever the test was performed. I should imagine
there will be a lot of 'flags' Earth bond 25A yes, earth bond 10A no,
earth bond 100ma no, insulation test yes, visual pass, etc, etc. Plus
the actual figures recorded. I can download in multiple formats so I am
able to cros
