Reading dat files

[Lora Ganeva]

How can I read dat files

[Pete Randall]

It depends on how they were created: tar, cpio, dd, fbackup, OBII. You need to know that first.

Pete

[Stefan Schulz]

Hi,

you need to know how these files were created.

Use: file datfile
If the fileformat is known to your system you will get some usefull information.

You could also try to use:

strings datfile

This will list all strings that seem to be human readable. Most applications put their name and versionnumber in the datfiles they create.

This should give you an idea what created this files. Then use this application to open them.

Hope this helps

Regards Stefan

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Lora


From your question it looks like you want to read the files from the dat tapes , it depends on what type of the format was used to write on teh tape , ie tar , cpio , dd etc .

However if you want to read a dat file ona filesystem , do a file to know the type of the dat file ,
view filename
cat filename
strings filename

etc are some of the ways to read the dat file.


Manoj Srivastava