PyNIPS

This is a Python library for reading data from NIPS 360 FFS data files.

The National Military Command System Information Processing System 360 Formatted File System (NIPS 360 FFS) was a database management system used by the United States of America Military, primarily during the Vietnam War. NIPS 360 FFS runs on the IBM System/360 mainframe computers and is based on the IBM Formatted File System (FFS).

PyNIPS is free software released under the terms of the AGPL-3.0-or-later. The source code is available on Codeberg <https://codeberg.org/ctrlall/pynips>.

Contents

• Getting and Installing PyNIPS
  • From PyPi
  • From source
• Reading NIPS 360 FFS Data Files
  • Data Set
• Records and the File Format Table
  • Logical Records
  • File Format Table
  • Element Format Record
  • User Data Records
• Known Limitations
• Validation
• The NIPSEXT command-line tool
  • Information about NIPS files
  • Extract records
  • REPL

Indices and tables

• Index

• Search Page

Acknowledgments

This software was initially developed as part of the SNSF-Ambizione funded research project [“Computing the Social. Psychographics and Social Physics in the Digital Age”](https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/201912).