Hi, everyone
I am starting to work on my assignment (URLyBird). I was reading the instructions file and I played a bit with the reading of the database file.
My instructions file says:
Start of file
4 byte numeric, magic cookie value. Identifies this as a data file
2 byte numeric, number of fields in each record
....
Does anyone of you know what this magic cookie value mean and what is it good for?
What am I suppose to do with this cookie value? Are you using this data with any particular purpose?
Just for exploration purposes I've written this lines of code to read the file metadata, but I do not see the use of this magic cookie.
Thanks in advance, guys.
Regards,
LoC.
[ January 10, 2006: Message edited by: Edwin Dalorzo ]