FIGURE 14 delineates in order the elements comprising
the reconstitution body 1260 within the reconstitution file 0270. These elements are either
variable length or unpredictable in number until all variables (see FIGURE 13) in the
reconstitution header 1250 are known.
Location strings 1410 are null terminated ASCII strings.
They take one of two forms. Those on hard drive or on local-area network (LAN) drives each
contain a drive letter, a colon, and a directory or subdirectories sequence (example:
"c:\data\RandomTables"). Internet locations typically start with "ftp." or "www."
followed by a text string, a type identifier, and possible directory and subdirectory
elements separated by slashes. The first location string 1410 is normally that of the
directory 0310 containing the random tables 0230. The second is normally that of the
working directory 0420. Location strings 1410 are written one after the other, with
only a terminating null to separate them. Location strings 1410 are referenced by
their relative offsets within this concatenated list. For example, the first location
is zero, the second location counts forward the length of the first location plus one
for its null.
Names 1420 of reconstitution files 0270 are as
discussed under 0451 names of output files, 0320 name of first reconstitution file,
and 0450 prefix for output file names. The next two entries 1421 and 1422 provide
detail.
The name of the first reconstitution file 1421
appears in long form. The user was given the option to impose a name 0320 for the
first reconstitution file 0270. Long form names in many operating systems may be
up to 256 bytes in length. If no name was imposed, a scrambled name is used. The
name, whatever its derivation, is stored at this point in the reconstitution body
1260.
