UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

and you can open your .dat files which are not in this "rawdata" folder with a text editor (and see something that makes sense) ?

exactly..........

go and spend money.....

readability, as your mentioned in you first post does not automatically mean readable for you in a text editor

you can't provide us with any necessary information, even when someone tells you the next steps, you are not able/don't want to do it, so tell me: what kind of answer do you expect?

something like: get the program "datfilereader" on download.com, open it and be happy?

they could be compressed, really a binary file, or anything else

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 100% sure.

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

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 command for the .dat files I could not read. The .dat file in the folder that I could read said ascii text, and the .dat file in the folder that I cannot read is a awk program file. I guess my next question would be is, is there a way to convert these .dat files I cant read to ascii from awk or what would be the next step to take.

Thanks