>Several years ago I wrote an FB II leasing program for a client
>(converted from QB). Now they want some changes but I lost the source
>code due to a hard disk crash (I can't believe I can't find my backup!).
>I can rewrite the source code, but need to use the existing data files
>that are larger than 2 meg. Unfortunately, I do not know the format of
>the data files (e.g. whether they are records or numeric arrays, if
>characters then the variable size, etc.).
>
>Does anyone know how I can read or print the existing files to
>understand the data structure so the FBII rewrite can again read these
>files?

Resorcerer lets you look at a file's data fork in hex and ASCII. Also,
there's a ResEdit utility, DfEd, that lets you do the same thing in
ResEdit. If you can't find DfEd let me know privately and I can send it to
you.

Charlie Dickman
charlied@...