Magic cookie value and database name

[Frans Janssen]

Hi all,

I am just curious, what are your magic cookie values (the first number in the database file that identifies it as a valid file) and the names of the file you are provided with.

My magic cookie value is 0x00000202 and the file was called db-2x2.db. Now I am wondering of the 2's in the file name are related to the two 02 bytes in the cookie value.

May be just coincedence though.

Frans.

[Dieskun Koper]

Hi Frans,

My database file is called db-1x3.db, the cookie is 0x00000103 and I did URLyBird 1.3(.3). I remember reading a message here on Javaranch before they they're correlated.
I think what we can learn from that is that you have been staring too long at your assignment and that it's about time you submit your application

[Frans Janssen]

Originally posted by Dieskun Koper:
Hi Frans,

My database file is called db-1x3.db, the cookie is 0x00000103 and I did URLyBird 1.3(.3). I remember reading a message here on Javaranch before they they're correlated.
I think what we can learn from that is that you have been staring too long at your assignment and that it's about time you submit your application

Hi Dieskun,

Thanks for your reply. My assignment is B&s 2.2(.3), so there is indeed a relation there too. I am glad that this is cleared up for me now.

And maybe it is time for me to submit...

Frans.

[Cosmo Kramer]

My assignment is URLyBird 1.2.1, the database file is called "db-1x1.db" and the magic cookie value is 0x00000101, so I think the magic cookie value is the 1st and the 3rd version number.

[woo sung hwang]

i am wondering how you guys get 0x0000201 like that. I am doing B&S 2.1 and spec say that magic cookie value is 4 bytes numeric value. so i use readByte() 4 times and i got 0021.
how i get cookie value like you?
and am i worng?