Program to read ANYTHING, please

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Chief Suspect

This is more difficult than you might imagine.

I need a program that will a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y
display the raw ascii of any file .. and I do
mean *any* file, any extension, even no extension.
I want to see that booger's internals.

I've tried Lister .. so-so until I click on a .URL file.

I've tried View Anything .. ditto.
 
Chief said:
This is more difficult than you might imagine.

I need a program that will a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y
display the raw ascii of any file .. and I do
mean *any* file, any extension, even no extension.
I want to see that booger's internals.

I've tried Lister .. so-so until I click on a .URL file.

I've tried View Anything .. ditto.
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http://www.nettally.com/waldoe/freeware/textutil.html

download peek and install per directions.
 
Chief said:
This is more difficult than you might imagine.

I need a program that will a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y
display the raw ascii of any file .. and I do
mean *any* file, any extension, even no extension.
I want to see that booger's internals.

I've tried Lister .. so-so until I click on a .URL file.

I've tried View Anything .. ditto.
Click to expand...


http://eagle.westnet.gr/~cgian/av.htm

sorry, the other link is dead. but you can download here.
 
Chief said:
This is more difficult than you might imagine.

I need a program that will a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y
display the raw ascii of any file .. and I do
mean *any* file, any extension, even no extension.
I want to see that booger's internals.

I've tried Lister .. so-so until I click on a .URL file.
Click to expand...


Any hex editor, most any text editor. Metapad, for example... Shift +
right click, open with...




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dadiOH
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....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
 
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None of the suggestions were researched !! They DO NOT work!!

Try it on a .URL file, then come back when you have a working answer.

Thanx
 
Chief said:
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None of the suggestions were researched !! They DO NOT work!!

Try it on a .URL file, then come back when you have a working answer.
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I doubt they'll bother. . .

dunno why I'm bothering to post this. . . ;)

http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=.URL&Search=Search

Extension: URL
Internet Location
Generally, this file extension won't show up even if showing file
extensions is the default setting on the system. A number of different
browsers will attempt to capture this file extensions depending on which
browser you set as your system default. To see the contents of a URL
file open a text editor and drag the file from explorer onto the open
text editor window. Note: This file type can become infected and should
be carefully scanned if someone sends you a file with this extension.

Susan
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Chief Suspect said:
This is more difficult than you might imagine.

I need a program that will a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y
display the raw ascii of any file .. and I do
mean *any* file, any extension, even no extension.
I want to see that booger's internals.

I've tried Lister .. so-so until I click on a .URL file.

I've tried View Anything .. ditto.
Click to expand...

FileAlyzer
 
None of the suggestions were researched !! They DO NOT work!!

Try it on a .URL file, then come back when you have a working answer.

Thanx
Click to expand...

Try Notepad or MetaPad, works fine for me.
 
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Well, Susan came up with the answer! And, thanks that she did.
Others were too quick to pop up with non-working answers which
just wastes everyone's time. If someone offers an answer, at
least be certain first that it works. What's wrong with that?
 
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Well, Susan came up with the answer! And, thanks that she did.
Others were too quick to pop up with non-working answers which
just wastes everyone's time. If someone offers an answer, at
least be certain first that it works. What's wrong with that?
Click to expand...


Daddioh's answer worked for me...just out of curiosity tried it with
Bintext, Axarscan and Metapad...no problem

Easiest way to set it up is to pop a shortcut in the Send To folder,
right click on the url file and send it to whichever app you desire.
If all you want is the actual url you'll find it in the file
properties box.

Regards,
 
Chief Suspect said:
None of the suggestions were researched !! They DO NOT work!!

Try it on a .URL file, then come back when you have a working answer.
Click to expand...

Looks like someone will have to teach you some manners, old chap.

Anyway, get this file viewer and please go away.

http://www.ghisler.com/lister/

It works fine here.

S.O. Meone
 
i just opened an url with Wordpad so what's the problem ?
tel me a file Wordpad would not open....

And if not happy, try the most powerfull editor, Vi.
even with shell extension integration

Something i don't like with some editors (even VI) is for
binaries, for example they "skip" heaps if it is 1 long line.

Viewing 1 long binarie line is not so easy, maybe i should
try your suggestion.

laurent
 
Well, Susan came up with the answer! And, thanks that she did.
Others were too quick to pop up with non-working answers which
just wastes everyone's time. If someone offers an answer, at
least be certain first that it works. What's wrong with that?
Click to expand...

Someone suggested a hex file editor. That's the definitive answer,
since it'll work on any file that the operating system allows you to
open in read mode.

Whether what you see will make any sense to you is another matter.
 
Chief said:
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None of the suggestions were researched !! They DO NOT work!!

Try it on a .URL file, then come back when you have a working answer.
Click to expand...

Are you talking to me or just posting willy-nilly?

If to me, then I gave you an answer you arrogant POS. In fact, I gave
you TWO of them. Not my problem if you can't follow the instructions I
also gave you. Now FOAD.

HAND & HTH

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dadiOH
____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.06...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
 
Chief said:
====================================================

Well, Susan came up with the answer! And, thanks that she did.
Others were too quick to pop up with non-working answers which
just wastes everyone's time. If someone offers an answer, at
least be certain first that it works. What's wrong with that?
Click to expand...

Nothing at all. Just be sure that you know how to follow the
instructions before you decide something doesn't work. You didn't.

Instead, you whine and moan that such and such doesn't work. Be sure
that something *doesn't* work before you waste people's time with your
pissing and moaning.

--
dadiOH
____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.06...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
 
This is more difficult than you might imagine.

I need a program that will a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y
display the raw ascii of any file .. and I do
mean *any* file, any extension, even no extension.
I want to see that booger's internals.

I've tried Lister .. so-so until I click on a .URL file.

I've tried View Anything .. ditto.
Click to expand...

I use TextView, a small freeware program, to read raw files.
The current version is available at:

http://www.flos-freeware.ch/textview.html
 
This is more difficult than you might imagine.

I need a program that will a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y
display the raw ascii of any file .. and I do
mean *any* file, any extension, even no extension.
I want to see that booger's internals.

I've tried Lister .. so-so until I click on a .URL file.

I've tried View Anything .. ditto.
Click to expand...
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TextExtract is a small but powerful program that scans one or more files
for text strings, extracts them and saves them into a separate file.
Useful if, say, you have a corrupted word processor file, or if you just
want to see what text, if any, is inside a file. Configurable
extraction.
Lovely interface. Very straightforward to use.

TextExtract is free to use from its GUI (ie. the buttons and that) and
shareware if you use it from its command-line interface.

http://www.ultima-thule.co.uk/

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A small, very fast and powerful text extractor that will be of
particular interest to programmers. It can extract text from any kind of
file and includes the ability to find plain ASCII text, Unicode (double
byte ANSI) text and Resource strings, providing useful information for
each item in the optional "advanced" view mode. Its comprehensive
filtering helps prevent unwanted text being listed. The gathered list
can be searched and saved to a separate file as either a plain text file
or in informative tabular format.

http://www.foundstone.com/resources/proddesc/bintext.htm

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ReadText uses a routine to distinguish text from binary code. When given
a filename, it removes whatever it finds that looks like binary code in
the file. What's left behind is what the program believes to be text
only. This program is meant to be used on program or data files, where
you think there might be some text information hidden, like game cheats,
program usage information, etc.. The text in such binary files can
already be read by any good text viewer, but all the binary code
cluttering up can make it difficult to find what you're looking for.
Using this program should, by removing most of this code, make your
search a little easier.

http://members.fortunecity.com/bigg5/frw/diagn.htm

ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/fileutil/rt101.zip

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