Hi Matthew,
On 06 Jun 97, 06:36, you wrote to All
 MP> Hello, I've been working on mapping out the FAT table.  No reason
 MP> to do this rather than find it in a book but I wanted to test out
 MP> my HEX editor.  Can anyone tell me how to decode the date field.
 MP> I think it is at either offset 24d or 25d from the beginning of
 MP> the file's entry but I can't make any sense out of it.  Any help
 MP> would be appreciated
Read the WORD at that offset (I'm too lazy to look it up). The high seven 
its
are the year minus 1980, the low 5 bits are the day and the remaining four 
middle bits are the month.
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