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Ok Thanks john. Well I am calling it an awk file because when I ran the file command on the linux box it called these files awk program files, and he stated that awk was similar to a text editing...

I am still wondering about the awk file that I have that could possibly be corrupt but I want to confirm if there is a way to convert this file into an ascii text file. Thanks

Does anyone have any feedback for me on my issue?

Well what I mean by readable is the file has text ran from insurance testing with my company fm global. It is suppose to be readable so the data from the test is located in that .dat file. It is all...

yes perderabo I did a addai003.dat for example and the file command did say its an awk program file. I have other .dat that are ascii text in another folder and those are I can open and read.

Well the permission issues are fine they are rw-rw-rw under a user which is my boss. I have another folder of .dat files that are in ascii text and I can read them in a text editor and do what i need...

I have some .dat files that I cannot open and read the data. It is an awk program file, and my question would be to you all is there a way to convert this awk file to ascii text?

Thanks

Hello again everyone,

I just got on the unix box and ran the file command and I have came to this conclusion. I ran the file command for a dat file that is readable and has text and I ran the file...

I will hopefully get to this task today and try to do the file command. I will let you know how I make out. Thanks

Funksen, I would do this at my work so yes I am able to do this and was just looking for some help. I will go on with this and most likely recreate all the .dat files because they made be corrupt not...

exactly..........

Ahh ok. Well heres the thing I dont know if this will help my boss knows what type of files these are, and these files are made from a bin and hea file after a fire test is ran because where I work...

I dont understand where I would run that command...If you could please explain what I would need to do I would appreciate it.

Thanks

I dont know what running the file command means also so if you could explain to me on how to do it I will be glad to find out what you are referring too.

they are .dat files but they were created from a .hea file. I know what type of files they are I was just wondering on how I can make them readable. These .dat files are created from insurance...

nah that doesnt make sense........I guess what im trying to say is do you know a way to read these dat files so we can understand what they mean besides hex or binary because they were made in...

Also where should i apply the command you stated above?

The file was created in a proprietary fortran script.

Hi Everyone,


I have a question for you all. I am working at a company and we are trying to recover .dat files which were created on an older linux box and we have a folder of .dat files that are...