In the last episode (Feb 08), Joe Peterson said: > Mark Day wrote: > > Based on the subset of data you posted, the bad data looks like > > ASCII text. The bad data from offset a0000 to a000f is: > > > > ${138AFE{@ > > @$$}1 > > > > The bad data from offset af6c1 to af6c8 is: > > > > 392A9}@ > > > > I don't recognize the content beyond that, but I'd guess that > > somehow the contents of some other file managed to overwrite that > > portion of the bad file. As for how that happened, I don't know. > > But if someone recognizes where the bad content came from, that > > might be a clue. > > Good eye! Yes, it indeed does appear to be ASCII. I *thought* > something in the repetition when I originally did an od -a looked > interesting. > > I dumped the whole bad section as a string, and here's (partly) what I get: > > @$${138B8B{@ > <(21470=Thu Jan 24 23:20:58 2008)> > [117:^80(^91^21470)] > @$$}138B8B}@ ... > @$${138C18{@ > <(21472=1201242069)>[-2:^80(^82^85)(^83^1B5)(^84=b)(^85=1)(^86=0)(^87=0) > (^88=0)(^89^2146C)(^8A=)(^8B=40)(^8C=2e)(^8D^84)(^8E=0)(^90^21472) > (^91^21460)] > @$$}138C18}@ > > and more of the same. Note the date string. There are several like > that. Anyone recognize this text format?
It's a Mork database from the Mozilla project: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mork_Structure#Rows -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"