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# 8  
Old 02-07-2007
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Originally Posted by ryangfm
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 fortran and they have important info on them that my company needs and we have tried alot and before we recreate lets says 500 dat files we want to try to get them readable.
The "file" command was only intented to find out what kind of files they are and in what kind of format they are.

But since you already know up front that it doesn't make any sence, I'm sure you know the answer to your own question as well.

As far as I'm concerned, you are on your own now.
# 9  
Old 02-07-2007
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 testing from my company which is FM Global. So we need the data for the previous years. sb008 didnt mean to throw you for a loop or insult you I just didnt think that would be the best thing to do but I know limited things when it comes to unix.

Thanks
# 10  
Old 02-07-2007
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.
# 11  
Old 02-07-2007
As already posted and clarified by sb008:

Quote:
Originally Posted by sb008
The following command could provide you some info about that kind of files they are:

file <filename>
or just
file *
Quote:
Originally Posted by sb008
In the directory where to .dat files are located on those .dat files
# 12  
Old 02-07-2007
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
# 13  
Old 02-07-2007
if the files are still on unix/linux open a ssh or telnet session to that machine, (or go directly to keyboard and monitor if you have access), get a command line prompt, switch to the directory your files are in and type "file yourfile.dat"
yourfile.dat stands for the name of your .dat file

if the files are on windows, copy them to linux and run the command
# 14  
Old 02-07-2007
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 we run fire tests because FM Global is an insurance company. So we have two folders that have working .dat files but the files in this rawdata folder are unreadable . So I wonder if its possible to open them with some sort of file viewer in which i tried many. We can recreate these dat files but there are about 500 and that is alot of time money and effort. Appreciate the feedback. Thanks
 
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