How do you ?

uncrypt a .dat file
i have a dat file and i wanna see what's inside in words no HEX or ASCII code ...
i have ultra edit .
anyone ? plz

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I think it really depends on what the .dat file was made by. Lots of programs use the .dat extension.

Are you sure it contains text?

-GB

if u got the dat file from a VCD, its probably a plain mpeg2 format

Originally posted by VenagE
uncrypt a .dat file
i have a dat file and i wanna see what's inside in words no HEX or ASCII code ...
i have ultra edit .
anyone ? plz

I've written a simple hex-dumper - it'll show any ascii data in the file if it's readable. This is compiled on Win2k, not sure it will work on all Windows...

It could be improved - I mainly use it on Unix systems, so this Windows version may have bugs.

Notice: This is an executable file, but it is not a virus. To run the program, you will need to download it and change the extension to .exe. Legal disclaimer here: if it screws up your system, I'll try and help, but will accept no responsibility for its use (or misuse).

hex.prg

Originally posted by GoldenBear
I think it really depends on what the .dat file was made by. Lots of programs use the .dat extension.

Are you sure it contains text?

-GB

from msn

Originally posted by ZelRiptha
I've written a simple hex-dumper - it'll show any ascii data in the file if it's readable. This is compiled on Win2k, not sure it will work on all Windows...

It could be improved - I mainly use it on Unix systems, so this Windows version may have bugs.

Notice: This is an executable file, but it is not a virus. To run the program, you will need to download it and change the extension to .exe. Legal disclaimer here: if it screws up your system, I'll try and help, but will accept no responsibility for its use (or misuse).

hex.prg

prog simply doesn't work , i changed to ".exe" when it runs , a dos command prompt shows up and quickly disappears . I guess it doesn't work , i'm using win xp

Sorry, Ven. I meant to say it's a console app. Try running it from the command line.

It requires an argument - the file you want to dump. So you'd type something like:

Code:

hex.exe my_file.dat

Does that make more sense?

Also, if the file is large, you'll want to pipe the output into a text file. Like so:

Code:

hex.exe big_file.dat > big_dump.txt

Sheesh, I shoulda coded a UI.

it still shows the numbers in rows and colums ...

nothing into words , it's a file from msn conversation

Ah, sorry it didn't help more.

The data is clearly not stored as character strings then.

DARN IT

it's all good i'll try and find how to do it on the net , thanks anyways for the help