Question

I have encountered this file – and know this much about it’s structure…

512-byte header (which contains a ‘counter’ of field definition records.)

768-byte field definition records – multiple instances. Apparently one for each field in the subsequent data records.

Data – in FIXED-LENGTH records (the data-record length is also in the header.)

I have examined several files from this same source – and the first few bytes of each file are different – one from another.

There is a string of HEX characters that are the same in the examples I have – but these hex characters do not represent a readable string: Š¾ŽY#dË@=qÒã¼dÐ

There are NO human-readable strings in the header.

Anyone have any ideas what kind of file I have here?

EDIT
Last evening, I was able to get to the source machine – and noted that – for this one file, at least, there were three other files with the same base name – with extensions: .blb, .blk and .idx.

I do not yet have copies of these additional files …

Does this help – anyone have any idea what kind of ‘database’ this goes to?

Answer 1

DBISAM!!

When we finally got to the ACTUAL server, we found the DB engine running – and it had clear declarations as to what kind of database was in use.