I have an MS-DOS developed application in D-Fend Reloaded and its DB is stored into a DATABASE01.DAT file. I tried to determine the file type through file command in ubuntu terminal and I get:
DATABASE01.DAT: application/octet-stream; charset=binary
I tried a simple:
cat DATABASE01.DAT | tr -d '\0' | head -1
And I get some data:
AAA 362887637 � � FEDERES ATTIVI 309 FAUSH �6Cat
The problem is that some fields appears as � and I cannot find out which field separator it outputs (looks like a 14 length spaces)
I if run hexdump -C DATABASE01.DAT:
00000000 50 49 45 52 49 4e 49 20 49 4f 4c 45 20 20 20 20 |AAA |
00000010 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 | |
00000020 20 39 34 30 31 34 32 36 31 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 | 362887637 |
00000030 06 00 02 00 7b 07 14 00 08 00 ca 07 07 00 09 00 |....{...........|
00000040 ca 07 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 50 45 52 55 47 49 41 |.. FEDERES|
00000050 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 | |
How can I convert it to a plain text file?