I have already been peeking in hex editors. I have picked out 80% of the
data and been able to read it into perl (since posting this). However I
have noticed some characters which appear to act as boundries between
certain fields which are not in the standard ascii set, so I'll have
trouble evaluating those in my code, I know how to do it in Quick Basic,
I've never tried in perl.
The next big problem is that the most important data appears as
gibberish. I think I will need to experiment with several data files and
look for similarities and differences. I'm getting there though.
On 23/11/14 00:01, Tony Pursell wrote:
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 <mailto: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 <http://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
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