UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Again, this is not xml. How did it get that extension? Who sent / created it? Do you have other files? A very simple one, mayhap?

The file showed as .xml. I assume Uplay created it initially, then Callaway when they took over. I am attaching more files that are associated with the "new" unit.

As an aside: Please note

Handheld gps receivers can read GPX files (geocaching files ) commonly and some other proprietary files that are in xml format.

They cannot read them all, the interpretive programming is hardcoded. Proprietary external software is need to preprocess the xml file so it becomes readable. GPSbabel and GPSexpert, for exsamples, convert GPX files back and forth to dozens of completely proprietary formats, including xml. They allow you to move data from one internal format to another, usually with GPX(xml) as the lingua franca (intermediate file).

Three of those are xml, course_info.xml is not. Unless we find additional help / info, I'm afraid I'm out of ideas.

That's interesting. I'll look into GPS-specific end now. I was just hoping there was some kind of program that could "read" the file and determine what "coding", "language" etc, it was or that someone with experience with them could see it straight-away.

Thanks everybody, appreciate you all taking a look.

There is one actually, called as 'file', but this baffles it. The next thing I tried was 'strings', to identify any text sequences inside it, which also found nothing (except one unhelpful close tag). This doesn't seem like a commonly known data format. It might actually be compressed in a proprietary manner since it contains so few strings.

I tried gzipping the latest course_info.xml you posted, and it only shrinks from 1012K to 998K. An awful compression ratio like that is a pretty good sign that it's already compressed somehow. We won't be able to decode it until we know how it was compressed.