Ghex will show you what is in the file in hex and ascii format. Tony
On 22 November 2014 at 22:12, Gareth France <gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk> wrote: > I am a PAT tester and have found over my time in the role that the > software is a total rip off! If you purchase a digital camera, scanner, > webcam or anything else that interfaces with a PC you get the software to > make it go. Spend £1,000 on a PAT tester and you are then expected to pay > £300 on top just for the privilege of being able to download the data! > > The latest version of the software in question is even worse, it costs > £109 + VAT annually! And of course it doesn't work on Linux. I have methods > of accessing the basic data required but have just found out the latest and > greatest machine I would love to have has several features which are only > downloadable in their custom format which is not text readable. My machine > has the old version of this custom format and the machine I would like uses > a revised version. I am told it is very difficult to reverse engineer it. > > An example of the older file format is here: > www.cliftonts.co.uk/SSS > > So my question is this, how does one go about accessing a file like this > when they do not know the format? I have worked with text based files, CSV > etc but never something which does not load in a text editor. > > Any assistance would be appreciated. > > Thanks > Gareth > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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