On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 12:34:04PM -0700, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > On 6/25/23 12:15, Tomasz Rola via cctalk wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 04:39:01PM -0700, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > > > > > If you have those files accessible from some Unix-like OS, then you > > can: > > I know what's in the files, that's easy. What I don't know is what > created/used them. Recovering the content is fairly straightforward.
Perhaps you could have some luck with file command: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_(command) and: mkdir /tmp/checks cp kart*.fs /tmp/checks/kart ## this is something in Forth cp kart*.awk /tmp/checks/kart2 ## and something in awk cp /usr/share/file/magic.mgc /tmp/checks/img ## file's own magic database finally: --- $ file /tmp/checks/* /tmp/checks/img: magic binary file for file(1) cmd (version 16) (little endian) /tmp/checks/kart: ASCII text /tmp/checks/kart2: awk or perl script, ASCII text So it sometimes works, might work for you, too. Perhaps there is some older magic database which could contain the relevant info (later scrapped as no longer needed). Perhaps there could be a magick database for classic interest. No more ideas (for now, at least). -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com **
