You said the file was a manual. Is it associated with some device? We may know the origin if we know what the subject or title of the manual is. Regards, Les H On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 09:38 -0600, Scott Berry wrote: > Thank you Mike. Yes this helps. > > Scott > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike" <azmr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 9:04 AM > Subject: Re: How to open a db file -- was: Need to know > > > > > > With a file of unknown type and origin you get the opportunity to be a > > detective. Although I don't know of an absolutely conclusive way to > > determine the origin of the file there are three things I would do in this > > situation. > > > > 1) Do a Google search on the file extension (.db in this case). Someone > > else on the list apparently did that and got a long list of possibilities. > > > > 2) Open an xterm window and use the "file" command on the file. For > > example if the file name is 'data.db' simply type 'file data.db'. The > > file command will "look" at a few bytes in the file and try to recognize > > what type of a file it is. > > > > 3) Use 'hexdump' on the file. This will allow you to see the bytes in the > > file and hopefully gleen some useful information. Again open an xterm and > > type: 'hexdump -C data.db | less'. This will give you a screen full of > > what usually looks like garbage. Use the space bar to get to the next > > screen or the up/down arrows to move up and down a line at a time. The > > potentially useful stuff is at the right side of the display. With some > > file types you can actually see what application created the file and/or > > make some sense about what the file contains. > > > > Hope that helps. > > > > -- Mike > > > > On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Art Giles wrote: > > > >> Hi do not know it was sent to me to look at a manual. By a friend. > >> Thanks > >> Art (Dad) > >> > >>>>>> Hi how do you open a db file > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > >
