Re: How to open a db file -- was: Need to know

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You said the file was a manual.  Is it associated with some device?  We
may know the origin if we know what the subject or title of the manual
is.

Regards,
Les H
On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 09:38 -0600, Scott Berry wrote:
> Thank you Mike.  Yes this helps.
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike" <azmr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 9:04 AM
> Subject: Re: How to open a db file -- was: Need to know
> 
> 
> >
> > With a file of unknown type and origin you get the opportunity to be a 
> > detective.  Although I don't know of an absolutely conclusive way to 
> > determine the origin of the file there are three things I would do in this 
> > situation.
> >
> > 1) Do a Google search on the file extension (.db in this case).  Someone 
> > else on the list apparently did that and got a long list of possibilities.
> >
> > 2) Open an xterm window and use the "file" command on the file.  For 
> > example if the file name is 'data.db' simply type 'file data.db'.  The 
> > file command will "look" at a few bytes in the file and try to recognize 
> > what type of a file it is.
> >
> > 3) Use 'hexdump' on the file.  This will allow you to see the bytes in the 
> > file and hopefully gleen some useful information.  Again open an xterm and 
> > type: 'hexdump -C data.db | less'.  This will give you a screen full of 
> > what usually looks like garbage.  Use the space bar to get to the next 
> > screen or the up/down arrows to move up and down a line at a time.  The 
> > potentially useful stuff is at the right side of the display.  With some 
> > file types you can actually see what application created the file and/or 
> > make some sense about what the file contains.
> >
> > Hope that helps.
> >
> > -- Mike
> >
> > On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Art Giles wrote:
> >
> >> Hi do not know it was sent to me to look at a manual. By a friend.
> >> Thanks
> >> Art (Dad)
> >>
> >>>>>> Hi how do you open a db file
> >
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