How do I open a unix executable file?

Hi Deb,

Try running this in the Script Editor:

set f to choose file

readf

set the clipboard toresult

Paste the result into your post.

Darn, I have the hardest time using this site. Anyway, If the result has too much data, then just post the first maybe 1000 characters or so.

gl,

kel

Darn, this is a hard question! My Mom used to make the best stuffed cabbage you've ever eaten.

Hi Deb,

I couldn't decipher your file, but for what it's worth, first you need to par boil the cabbage to make it soft. Then, with the meat you have the ground beef and a little ground pork (that's extra). You roll the meat into balls and wrap the meat with the cabbage. Hold it together with toothpicks.

Now, the spices ( you don't need much because you have a lot of taste from the meat so a little salt and pepper. But, when you mix the meat maybe add one egg to hold it together. Also, you might add a slice of bread or you could use some flower. I like to use Ms. Dash. also. You're making me hungry and I think I'll cook that tomorrow night. 🙂

My mom just passed away too and I really miss her cooking.

Have a good day,

kel

Also, don't use anything to thicken the soup. Just use tomato sauce with equal amount of water.

Man this is sounding good with this cold weather.

gl,

kel

Thanks for posting the sample file.

Alas, MLP can't decipher the file either. So that rules out the following file types (from the MLP help files):

Word Processing

PC

Ami Pro 1.2, 2.0, 3.x

AppleWorks 5.0

ClarisWorks 1.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0

DCA/RFT

MS Word DOS through version 6.0

MS Word for Windows 1.x, 2.0, 6.0, 95, 97, 2000, XP 2002

MS Works for Windows 2.0, 3.0, 4.5, 95

Multimate 4.0

Professional Write 2.0

RTF

Text

WordPerfect DOS 5.0, 5.1, 6.0

WordPerfect Windows 6.x, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 10, 11

WordPerfect Works 2.0, 2.1

WordStar 5.0, 6.0, 7.0

Mac

AppleWorks 5.0

AppleWorks 6.0 (read only)

ClarisWorks 1.0, 2.x, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0

FrameMaker MIF 3.0

MacWrite II

MacWrite Pro 1.0, 1.5

MS Word 4.0, 5.x, 6.0, 98, 2001, 2003

MS Works 2.0, 3.0, 4.0

Nisus Writer 3.0, 4.0

RTF

Text

WordPerfect 2.x, 3.x

WriteNow 3.0, 4.0 (read only)

AppleWorks (Apple II) 2.1, 3.0, GS

Spreadsheet

PC

AppleWorks 5.0

ClarisWorks 1.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0

Excel 2.x, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 95, 97, 2000, XP 2002

Lotus 1-2-3 (WK3, WK4, 97, 98, Millennium 9.5)

MS Works for Windows 2.0, 3.0, 4.5, 95

Quattro Pro (DOS) 4.0

Quattro Pro (Windows) 1.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0

Quattro Pro (Windows) 9.0 (read only)

SYLK (read only)

Mac

AppleWorks 5.0

AppleWorks 6.0 (read only)

ClarisWorks 1.0, 2.x, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0

Excel 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 98, 2001, 2003

MS Works 2.0, 3.0, 4.0

SYLK (read Only)

AppleWorks (Apple II) 2.1, 3.0

Database

PC

ClarisWorks 1.x, 3.x, 4.0

Comma Separated Values (write only)

dBase III, IV (DBF)

FoxBASE/FoxPro

MS Works for Windows 2.0, 3.0, 4.5, 95

Tab Text (write only)

WordPerfect Works 2.0

Mac

ClarisWorks 1.0, 2.x, 3.0, 4.0

Comma Separated Values (write only)

FoxBASE/FoxPro

MS Works 2.0, 3.0, 4.0

Tab Text (write only)

AppleWorks (Apple II) 2.1, 3.0

Graphics Formats

GIF

JPEG

PC Paintbrush.PCX

PICT/PICT 2

TIFF

Windows Bitmap.BMP

Windows Metafile.WMF

WordPerfect.WPG 1.0, 2.0

EPS (translate between Mac and PC formats only)

Compression

Compact Pro (.cpt)

MacBinary

Gzip

StuffIt (.sit)

TAR

Z

Zip

Encoding

BinHex

MIME

uuEncode

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File Juicer, another handy tool in cases such as this one, also cannot parse the file. Although FJ also boasts an impressive array of file types that it can recognize, it can't handle this one. And just for the heck of it, I tried feeding the file to GraphicConverter, too, just in case this file might be in some arcane image format. It's not.

Interestingly, the file contains no clear (i.e., human-readable) text at all. Back in the day, most word processors stored most of what you typed in relatively straightforward, clear-text fashion. Even at the hex level, you could make sense of the data stream if you knew what to look for. Here, however, there's not a bit of clear text.

There's also, at the hex level, neither a creator code nor a file type, a classification/file-recognition system that Apple used for many years. Any document produced by an application would automatically be tagged with a creator code and file type, but this sample file has neither one.

It's also not an alias of a file, which would have a unique data signature that could be observed at the hex level.

If I had to guess at this point, I'd say the file is corrupt, compressed, or perhaps encrypted (the latter is unlikely, I would imagine, unless that's quite an astonishing stuffed cabbage recipe!). Post a couple more files, if you want, and I'll poke at those as well with the tools before me.

That's funny mentioning the forks. When I read the resource fork it has Preview.app. Wonder why that's there.

Edited: maybe it's some kind of picture. I don't think it's a picture file though.

For what it is worth I ran in to the same issue. I copied the folder with its files to a USB key. Plugged the USB key into my very old iMac downloaded the folder with its on the desktop. Double clicked on one of my files and it opened in appleworks,

Cheers Christophe

Hi folks

I'm having the exact same problem so am watching the conversation. Any solutions yet?

I am really regretting not having re-saved my older files into newer formats, so want to convert them whilst there still may be a chance.

Mark

I have the same problem with Word files I saved in 2008 on one of those colored laptops. To solve, just add the .doc extension name to the file name. .docx also works & you can dble click the file from the Finder, not necessary to open Word first to do [file open] from Word.

I easily opened same files using textEdit on Mavericks.