hbk file

[Robin Laing]

On 2014-07-17 16:59, Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
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> On 07/18/2014 01:30 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
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>  > od is one of those basic Unix/Linux utilities that's always there
>  > but that people using DEs tend to forget about. "man od" for more.
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> Thanks for pointer , i found od
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> I tried "od --strings" and "od -t c" but neither returned something
> understandable .
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> Best result i have had so far was to upload the hbk back to my cell
> phone and then
> back it up with another application that would export the data i wanted
> in another
> format ( Play Store  did a pretty nice work there ) . Then things were
> much simpler since
> i could read the sms even with vi ( nano , KWrite , whatever editor )
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As this is a backup file, I wonder if the file is a compressed file. 
Try the various unzip, bzip or other programs to decompress it.  Just a 
thought as many backup systems will compress the backups.

 From what I see, it is a closed HTC file format and another example of 
why we should only use OPEN file formats.  Try contacting HTC.