It is readable, but no more so than if you just load it into perl using
binmode. I'm currently struggling with identifying the different fields
within the data. I've been plucking them out manually which is fine for
the first half then I find some of them are variable length and I have
no way of identifying where they start.
On 23/11/14 19:20, Paul Sutton wrote:
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On 22/11/14 22:12, Gareth France 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
What happens if you load in to a Hex editor,
Paul
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