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Originally Posted by Doitsu
You could try to have the .dat file analyzed by a signature based tool such as TrID to check whether it's common file format with an .dat extension, however, I highly doubt that the publisher used a common database format and if they did, the content is most likely encrypted and/or password-protected.
Many publishers also license third party dictionary tools that almost always use encrypted database files.
You may want to accept the fact that you most likely cannot convert the .dat file to a format that you can read on your smartphone.
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Sure, you are right. I have to give up
. TrID said "
Unknown" as you can see below :
C:\Users\Windows7\Desktop\trid_w32>trid.exe pr1.dat
TrID/32 - File Identifier v2.10 - (C) 2003-11 By M.Pontello
Definitions found: 5114
Analyzing...
Collecting data from file: PR1.DAT
Unknown!
C:\Users\Windows7\Desktop\trid_w32>
Nevetheless, there is some good news. After many hours of googling I found in a russian ebook forum, a dictionary from the same publisher :
Le Grand Robert de la Langue Française 2005. This is ported from the same *.dat file format to *.mobi.
link removed, refers to copyright-infringing content
I don't know who did this great job and how he did it
. I have the CD-Rom of this dictionary but I stopped used it because it is a 2005 edition and because I purchased the "
Petit Robert 2012 Edition" with more newer words.
I successfuly downloaded this dictionary from the russian website forum even if I don't understand any litle word in russian
. And by the way I have no information about the person who posted this dictionary. I would be fine if he would like to accept to exchange with us how he ported this dictionary to Mobipocket format.
Meanwhile, I'll use the 2005 edition to view defenition of words in my french ebooks.