I have been given a floppy disk that I was trying to read.  It is a
read only file.  I do not have the program it was written on.  How do
I read this file?
there is 1424kb on this file.  The only thing I have to go by is
CC21104A.002  There is nothing written on the disk.  My friend no
longer has his computer. The file was created 11-04-02 9:24am
size:1.38MB--Any clues on how to open this file or the  name of the
program it was written on so I can download the program to be able to
open it.

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 01 May 2003 14:19 PDT

Have you tried opening the file in Notepad? Sometimes examining a file
of unknown type in a text editor can provide some clues.

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Request for Question Clarification by dogbite-ga on 01 May 2003 22:06 PDT

Hi lilsassyfras-ga,

  Also, can you make the file accessible via
  the Internet?  If so, one of the researchers
  could download and examine the file.

           dogbite-ga

Looks like it might be one part of a multi-part archive

Maybe created by a disk backup utility?

I agree with yabbadab that based on the name and size of this file,
I'd be almost 100% certain that it's a part of a multipart spanned
archive. I know that archival utilities such as WINZIP can create
files such as this when spanning archives across multiple disks and
I've also seen applications such as Quickbooks creates files similar
to this when it creates it's own internal backup files and floppy disk
is chosen as the backup device.

Now, it's possible that this is simply a single part archive of some
sort (like the Quickbooks archive that I mentioned) but trying to
determine what it is may be difficult unless the application that
created it stored some information in a header as a part of the file.
Opening the file in Wordpad or with a Hex Editor may allow you to see
some plain text information and give you some clues.

Good luck!

-PWizard
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