How to open a db file -- was: Need to know

[Scott Berry]

Thank you Mike.  Yes this helps.

Scott


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike" <azmr at earthlink.net>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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
>
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