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Title: file extensions
Post by: Hollywood on 26 January 2002, 21:09: I'm trying to read a .sysz file it comes out in computer language. Is there any way I can change it to english?
Title: file extensions
Post by: voidmain on 26 January 2002, 21:29: quote:
Originally posted by Hollywood:
I'm trying to read a .sysz file it comes out in computer language. Is there any way I can change it to english?

Yes, use the "translate" command. Open a command prompt and change into the directory where the file resides and type "translate /english > filename.sysz".

e.g. if you have a file called "system.sysz" in the C:\WINNT directory you would:

1) Open command prompt
2) C:
3) cd \winnt
4) translate /english > system.sysz

Hope this helps!

NOTE: This is intended as a joke. Try it on a meaningless file first.

[ January 26, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
Title: file extensions
Post by: voidmain on 26 January 2002, 21:50: I'm sorry, I should have also added that this command works very well on Windows system files as well. It will output the source code for any windows system file. Run it on "win.com" for instance...
Title: file extensions
Post by: Hollywood on 26 January 2002, 21:54: I get a bad command or fil name. I tried it ever which way.
Title: file extensions
Post by: voidmain on 26 January 2002, 10:14: quote:
Originally posted by Hollywood:
I get a bad command or fil name. I tried it ever which way.

Hmmm, works great on my machine, maybe you should try it on a few more system files....
Title: file extensions
Post by: voidmain on 26 January 2002, 10:16: Oh, I forgot to mention that it may give a "Bad command or filename" response, however it should still be doing it's job, keep trying more files...
Title: file extensions
Post by: voidmain on 26 January 2002, 10:20: Oh, and in UNIX the command would be "strings filename".
Title: file extensions
Post by: voidmain on 27 January 2002, 08:11: Hmm, haven't heard from Hollywood for a while, I hope he didn't take me seriously and try my "joke" suggestion. If he did he's probably trying to figure out how to get his system running again. If nothing else, it would certainly serve as a painful learning experience in the nonexistent system security in MS OSs if he really did do it. I feel bad now but I couldn't imagine that someone would... never mind, now that I think about it again...
Title: file extensions
Post by: jtpenrod on 28 January 2002, 01:42: quote:
Oh, and in UNIX the command would be "strings filename".

You should know better than that:

translate [language options] [FILE1...][FILE2...]

So what you'd do is this:

translate --english f SomeFile | less

That would send the translated version to the pager so you could see what it says. To learn more about it:

man translate

Geez, VoidMain, why don't you learn to RTFM?(!) ;)

[ January 29, 2002: Message edited by: jtpenrod ]
Title: file extensions
Post by: Calum on 28 January 2002, 16:56: this reminds me of that amusing format c: instruction from a month or 2 ago! Ho Ho Ho...
eradicate away!