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On Windows, what is the best way to convert a binary file where the internal structure is unknown less that its contents are ASCII in nature back to plain text?
Ideally the conversion would produce a “human”-readable version. I think the file should contain something like the following:
Date: 10 FEB 2010
House: 345 Dogwood Drive
Exterior: Brick
In Linux/Unix:
This is of course not so much a “conversion” as a straight up extraction, by just filtering out the non-ASCII bytes. It’s useful quite often, though.
In general, without more knowledge of the file’s internal format, I don’t think you can do much better.