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On 22/11/14 22:12, Gareth France wrote: > I am a PAT tester and have found over my time in the role that the > software is a total rip off! If you purchase a digital camera, > scanner, webcam or anything else that interfaces with a PC you get > the software to make it go. Spend £1,000 on a PAT tester and you > are then expected to pay £300 on top just for the privilege of > being able to download the data! > > The latest version of the software in question is even worse, it > costs £109 + VAT annually! And of course it doesn't work on Linux. > I have methods of accessing the basic data required but have just > found out the latest and greatest machine I would love to have has > several features which are only downloadable in their custom format > which is not text readable. My machine has the old version of this > custom format and the machine I would like uses a revised version. > I am told it is very difficult to reverse engineer it. > > An example of the older file format is here: > www.cliftonts.co.uk/SSS > > So my question is this, how does one go about accessing a file like > this when they do not know the format? I have worked with text > based files, CSV etc but never something which does not load in a > text editor. > > Any assistance would be appreciated. > > Thanks Gareth > What happens if you load in to a Hex editor, Paul - -- http://www.zleap.net @zleap14 diaspora : zl...@joindiaspora.com Documentation lead @ ToriOS http://www.torios.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlRyM5cACgkQaggq1k2FJq2wvgCfTG2DvO7S3r/GZzAhM3YEmOYV VCsAmwUTSX6OOuHxXNMQc0uBWWoj52Ff =emy2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
