On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Jim wrote:
> > At that point, the next recourse I can think of is to open up
> > the file in a good hex editor (or a text editor that won't
> > mangle things up like Vim or Emacs) and see if you can puzzle
> > out any patterns.
>
> Tried that and also tried the unix strings command. No help
I didn't mean to suggest that it would be *easy*, but at this point I
think your only way of getting any traction -- short of getting the
vendor to help you or getting your new vendor to take a look -- is to
just sit down and start looking for patterns.
> > How big is the data file, out of curiosity?
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ wc -c LPAS188.RED
> 169567897 LPAS188.RED # bytes in the file
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ wc -l LPAS188.RED
> 354543 LPAS188.RED $ lines in the file
>
> with those numbers. but I doubt the file is line delimited
`wc` probably isn't the right tool to look at binary data. How about a
simple `du` command?
$ du -sh LPAS188.RED
Do you get something like 161.7M ?
I can see where that might be unweildy in a text editor... :-)
> It is just a data file of mtg loan stats. It uses a GUI to report and
> do what you like with the data. Problem is, the company i am working
> for no longer uses the vendor, so we can't use the GUI to look at this
> data and I dout the tech support will give me any help since we don't
> pay them anymore :)
>
> Thanks for the help
Have any backups? Paper reports?
If all else fails, you could always hire some interns and turn it into a
massive data [re-]entry project, provided that a paper trail exists...
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Chris Devers
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