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- 11-06-2003, 05:39 PM #1
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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- 11-07-2003, 02:13 PM #2Member
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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?
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- 11-07-2003, 04:50 PM #3Newbie
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if u got the dat file from a VCD, its probably a plain mpeg2 format
- 11-07-2003, 05:07 PM #4
Re: How do you ?
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
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).
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- 11-07-2003, 09:18 PM #5Originally 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?
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- 11-07-2003, 09:19 PM #6
Re: Re: How do you ?
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-- Peace I Holla --
- 11-07-2003, 09:22 PM #7
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
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- 11-07-2003, 09:25 PM #8
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
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- 11-08-2003, 02:57 AM #9
it still shows the numbers in rows and colums ...
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- 11-08-2003, 02:03 PM #10
Ah, sorry it didn't help more.
The data is clearly not stored as character strings then.- Member of theBlue Turnip Fanclub Name Glow
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- 11-08-2003, 09:37 PM #11
DARN IT
it's all good i'll try and find how to do it on the net , thanks anyways for the helpLast edited by Zandro; 11-09-2003 at 02:59 PM.
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