I ve been handed a file which appears to me to be a Sybase database file from some older Sybase version. I have d-loaded the latest sybase package from sybase and tried using that to connect to the contents but failed. Can someone suggest to me how to determine which version of sybase (and perhaps even which sybase db product) my file represents?
This is how the beggining of the file looks in a text editor:
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Thanks!
Filip