DBS

On the rest of this page, "positions" are number of characters on a line (including spaces), counting from 1.

A header line has the letter 'h' on position 15. A comment line is empty, or starts with a space. All other lines are story lines.

Header and story lines in a DBI file should not contain TABs or carets (^).
The number of '[' and ']' on a line should be equal.
The number of ')' on a line should be greater than or equal to the number of '('.

Header lines

• starting on position 1, length 14: storycode
• on position 16: level

The title starts on position 18.

Story lines

• starting on position 1, length 14: storycode
• starting on position 15, length 2: pages
• position 17: brokpg
• starting on position 18, length 2: pagel
• position 20 is ignored
• starting on position 21, length 4: plot
• starting on position 25, length 4: writ
• starting on position 29, length 4: art
• starting on position 33, length 4: ink
• starting on position 37, length 4: hero

The title starts on position 41. Other fields (or the above fields, if they don't fit) are behind the title.