text editor vs notepad
re: lock file on an access database.
i can see an .ldb file fine with windows notepad but cannot see the .ldb file in ubuntu's text editor. Its just messy text of symbols and letter. is there a way to view these files from ubuntu ? |
According to Microsoft Knowledgebase
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Are you sure you are using Notepad and not Notepad++? The following may be of some use http://support.microsoft.com/kb/186304 Searches for ldb and linux, seem to mostly just bring up pages related to LDAP-DB |
What is an LDB file?
EDIT: never-mind, nonamenobody's got it. |
and ldb file is a ms access database lock file
i have the regular notepad through xp |
And does it make sense when you look at it through 'regular notepad'?
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^ yes, i can read it fine in regular xp notepad
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Can you 'cat' from the command line?
Does it look better from there? Code:
cat /path/to/file.ldb |
^ i get no such file or directory when using the cat command
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cat -v /path/to/file.ldb |
^ cat does work.. You rock ! thanks for the help..
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And HasC is right, use 'cat -v'. |
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since ms-notepad and ms-access are both ms products its reasonable to assume that they perform some special formatting when reading .ldb's in notepad.
does strings file.ldb give you anything useful ? perhaps hexedit will help you scrub some info from it. since none of us seem to use windows much, can you provide a sample of the text you see in notepad versus what you see in gedit ? |
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are you sure you were looking at the .ldb file and not .mdb ? |
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