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.bin file conversion to readable format - is it possible?


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23-Jun-2005, 11:17 PM #1
.bin file conversion to readable format - is it possible?
Hi,

I've got a database file (so i assume) that has been stored as a .bin file. Is it possible to convert this file from binary to a readable format?

I have a hex editor that converts this .bin file to hex and to ascii, but the ascii is not readable. Is there such a thing as a ASCII to Char conversion tool that I can use to interpret this ascii code?? Any links or help would be great. thank you.

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23-Jun-2005, 11:25 PM #2
ASCII is readable text...what exactly are you expecting to get out of the file?
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26-Jun-2005, 10:48 PM #3
If you want to be able to do something like read the stored numbers as decimal digits, there is no utility which can do this. What it would take would be for you to KNOW the exact record formats and offsets and to write a C program or something to read the file and convert everything to human-meaningful form.
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