I'd never heard of Blaise untill I read your post, and It got me curious, so...

I found the Blaise User Group which had a Hints & Tips page, which linked to this promising URL: Extraction of whole Blaise files to SAS ...

The Blaise software set includes a Cameleon program (SAS.CIF) which can be used to extract data and load it into SAS. It generates a Manipula program that copies the Blaise file to ASCII and then generates a SAS program which can be used to read the ASCII file into SAS.

Sounds like you could use this to get an ASCII dump of your data, whch would be in a format a lot easier to reverse engineer then an unknown binary format.

In reply to Re: blaise and perl by hossman
in thread blaise and perl by aufrank

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