I've just been given a copy of the Farnell Electronics catalogue CD. This has the unfortunate design of wanting to install some Windoze package in order to read the catalogue.
I suspect that they've used a customised version of something fairly common in the M$ world; the CD has a number of directories named things like 'datadb', 'tabledb', 'worddb', containing files with the suffices '.dat' and '.idx'. The '.idx' files are all non-human-readable binary, with a certain regularity as one might expect from what is presumably an index file; some of them have near the end the letters of the alphabet interspersed with = signs. The '.dat' files are a mixture, some being almost entirely binary, some almost entirely text, some mostly binary with a few lines of HTML every few K which seem to be product descriptions or section headings of some sort. The CD has the following .dlls, although these may only be for the installer? ./aasicl7.dll ./aasparse.dll ./aasutil.dll ./ani/xtras/dirapi.dll ./ani/xtras/iml32.dll ./ani/xtras/msvcrt.dll ./ani/xtras/proj.dll ./ani/xtras/projctrc.dll ./bin/hlp256.dll ./bin/lfbmp70w.dll ./bin/lfcmp70w.dll ./bin/lfgif70w.dll ./bin/lfpng70w.dll ./bin/ltfil70w.dll ./bin/ltkrn70w.dll ./bin/mfcoleui.dll ./c61adll.dll ./help/rhgbtn16.dll ./romware.dll ./sfttree.dll ./sfttree_ix86_a_45.dll ./shfolder.dll Could anyone who recognises this format, and knows of a Debian or other Linux app that can read it, please let me know? Thanks, -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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