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Checking files inside of files
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 6:38 am
by Illusion
This may looks like an crazy idea, but there is a "file checker" somewhere on the WWW?!
What i am looking is: a program that searches a file, trying to find hex combinations that may be headers of known files
For example if i have a file:
"62 8A B2 E2 00 00"
and the "62 8A B2" is a known header of the "BMP" files, the program tells me about it.
Thanks for the help!
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 10:08 am
by Mr.Mouse
Look for File Ripper ... google it.
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 12:56 pm
by friendsofwatto
Yeah, I think the program called TRid or something does that - someone posted that not that long ago. Google for that program and see what you come up with.
Apart from that, the best you would be able to do it search at like
http://www.fileext.com or something for the extension of the file - it isn't the header of the file but it is the best there is that I know of.
WATTO
watto@watto.org
http://www.watto.org
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:53 pm
by Dinoguy1000
Yes, TrID scans the first 2k of a file, comparing it with known headers, and is very useful for figuring out what to use to open a given file. Here's a link:
http://mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html
Best of all, it allows you to make your own definitions for your files! But if you want to submit them, you currently have to manually email Marko (the owner)...
Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 12:43 am
by SparedLife
HyperRipper also
Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 3:20 am
by Dinoguy1000
A link, perhaps?
Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 3:51 am
by Guest
It's a piggyback plugin with our dear friend Elbereth's Dragon Unpacker. Not sure if it comes separately or if there is an equivelant plugin on sourceforge for the MultiEx.
Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 4:02 am
by Dinoguy1000
Oh, I see.
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 8:18 am
by TheDyingInformant
Wait a sec, wait a sec.... You mean ALL THIS TIME I tried to access the 'archives' of my game, and they may not have been archives at all, but files withen files? I thought thats what an archive IS....
Oh man I am confused now...
I mean they are files called .dat (if that is what contains most of the data for my game, I'm not 100% certain), but I know they have to have different stuff in each one, and I have no idea what. So am I trying to do the wrong thing?
Oh dear, someones got to help me even know what to look for and how to go about opening it! lol
