[ubuntu-uk] Reverse engineering data files

[Colin Law]

On 24 November 2014 at 08:03, Gareth France
<gareth.france at cliftonts.co.uk> wrote:
> I was led to believe by a rep of the company who makes these that this is
> not the case. He was happily discussing with my other companies who have
> done the same.

Can't he let you have a copy of the format specification then?

Colin

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> On 24/11/14 08:02, Alan Lord wrote:
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>> On 22/11/14 22:12, Gareth France wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> I'm sure you are already aware but just wanted to point out that you
>> *might* be actually breaking a law or two depending on the way the
>> software and data files are licensed etc...
>>
>> This is a public, and archived, mailing list.
>>
>> Al
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