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Reading .mcn files? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Hello y'all,

I need to get some information out of a .mcn file that is used by the Cary WinUV program (for windows XP), I know the file contains the info we're looking for but it's not readable on a text editor as per screenshot (the same thing appears via OSS - code and cat). Same for Nano which gives me a lot of tiny amongi.

Cary WinUV for some reason doesn't display the information we want, who know what they were thinking.

Anyone know a way to read the characters missing?

EDIT: Thanks everyone, I solved by saving it into csv through Cary WinUV but that may not work for everyone so thanks for all the replies

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[-] AJamesBrown@aussie.zone 27 points 11 months ago

It looks like it's in a binary format and is printing control characters because it isn't a format intended to be viewed/edited. You could try opening it in a hex editor and see if you can make any sense from that.

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