Re: Diacom Help

[Roger Heflin <rah@horizon.hit.net>]

On Thu, 11 May 2000, Dave Zug. wrote:

> HEY ED R!  You lurking?...
> 
> I bet I (or some/most on this list) could make a really cool windoze package
> to graph native diacom data files more like (well, exactly like) excel does,
> without doing the database conversion thing!
> 
> like with 9 or 12 re-scaled items on the same view, with colors and
> graph-type selection and everything! If you're interested we could do it
> PUBLIC, just post the data and config file(s) format and give a blessing...
> (not that either is nessecary, but boy would make it more likely to happen,
> and easier)
> 
> Is there a "modern" diacom package available?  the graphing features for the
> one I used in '97 was fairly,... well... ummm... "usable". (but admittedly
> better than anything *I* had marketed, he hee...)
> 

The diacom gdf file is pretty much the format that comes straight from
the GM ALDL data stream.  I have been able to decode it using the
assumption that it is the same as the standard data stream.

This also means that the data stream is different for almost every
vehicle+computer combination, so making the above is much more
difficult that it appears.

			Roger

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