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Parsing an Undocumented File Format
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Re: Parsing an Undocumented File Format
#62Back in the day I did some reverse engineering on the files inside Microsoft Windows CHM documentation files, after some other folks did the container format.
Re: Parsing an Undocumented File Format
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oh god, that sounds like a painful thing to try to do. there's an Access redistributable at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=549... i've never attempted JS interop, so i don't know how much it sucks, but it definitely seems doable. it'll likely be an adventure on it's own, but it's gotta be 1000x less fuckery than trying to reverse the binary format of Access the saner option would probably ju…
Yes, it is extremely painful. Thanks for the link, that may come in useful. But in general, the reason that I didn't use the Access redistributable is because I am building a Low Code system that I want to be able to import the Access database files that can work on Linux, Windows, or Mac.
Re: Parsing an Undocumented File Format
#64The best binary parser I had was in the Practical Common Lisp book in the MP3 chapter. I was able to use it to reverse engineer several custom formats used to stitch files including FoxPro db format I had no idea existed.
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Yes, it is extremely painful. Thanks for the link, that may come in useful. But in general, the reason that I didn't use the Access redistributable is because I am building a Low Code system that I want to be able to import the Access database files that can work on Linux, Windows, or Mac.
GPL2 https://github.com/mdbtools/mdbtools
I remember taking a look at mdbtools and not using it... can't remember why now, but I'll take another look. Thanks!