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recover data file format from pgm file ?
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| Hi everybody,
I have to recover cobol data files from a software...
These files are from acucorp and i used VUTIL32 -rebuild to reindex them so,
if i understood what i read, they do not contain deleted record anymore.
with VUTIL32 -extract, i obtain a file format very near to be comprehensive,
except for numeric fields, of course...
So i wondered if it could be possible to extract from PGM (or PGW) files,
which seems to be executables files, the format of my .DAT files.
Thanks for your help !
(and thanks to moralistics guys not to answer that "i'd better pay for the
soft" : i payed for it, but not have the source code and the software
company does not exists anymore.)
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| Frederico Fonseca 2005-08-10, 9:59 pm |
| On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 15:29:13 +0200, "cc" <someone@some.where> wrote:
>Hi everybody,
>
>I have to recover cobol data files from a software...
>
>These files are from acucorp and i used VUTIL32 -rebuild to reindex them so,
>if i understood what i read, they do not contain deleted record anymore.
>
>with VUTIL32 -extract, i obtain a file format very near to be comprehensive,
>except for numeric fields, of course...
>
>So i wondered if it could be possible to extract from PGM (or PGW) files,
>which seems to be executables files, the format of my .DAT files.
>
>Thanks for your help !
>(and thanks to moralistics guys not to answer that "i'd better pay for the
>soft" : i payed for it, but not have the source code and the software
>company does not exists anymore.)
>
Assuming you still have the programs I would try the following.
1- See if the FD´s were supplied with the programs. Some companies do
it.
2- Run the program with option "-d". This allows you to run in debug
mode. If the programs were compiled with Source Debug then you will be
able to retrieve the full sources.
3- Contact the company that made the software and ask them for the
FD´s. Most will give this with no problem, and others can be "forced"
to do it.
Frederico Fonseca
ema il: frederico_fonseca at syssoft-int.com
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