ESRI Layer Files

[Paul Ramsey]

Chip,
I have often thought the same thing.  Hexdumpping the files, it is  
really hard to see the structure at all.  The best explanation I have  
heard is that the lyr is a serialized COM object, which means it will  
be next to impossible to reverse engineer.  It makes one miss the  
old .avl files and ArcView 3.
Paul

On Oct 19, 2005, at 7:19 AM, Chip Taylor wrote:

> I have a fairly complex ESRI Layer file (.lyr) that I would like to  
> use in a Mapserver application.  Is there a way for Mapserver to  
> use the .lyr file, or failing that, convert the .lyr file to a  
> shapefile?  I have ESRI ArcMap and ArcCatalog but haven’t found  
> anything there either.
>
> Chip Taylor
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