I once was called in to export data from a DOS program that had no export option. Single Author died of heart issues and the company needed the data for the migration.
After several attempts to understand the binary format I gave up and ended up printing tabular reports to LPT1 which I connected my laptop to,
extracting it and rebuilding CSV files.
Lucky enough, printing those days were the most important feature of a business app.
After several attempts to understand the binary format I gave up and ended up printing tabular reports to LPT1 which I connected my laptop to, extracting it and rebuilding CSV files.
Lucky enough, printing those days were the most important feature of a business app.