Comment by HillOBeans

Reminds me of a "hack" I pulled years ago - I was developing desktop software that needed to retrieve information from a Palm OS application called Ultrasoft Brainforest Deluxe. This particular application was a general-purpose outlining/tree-structure data store. Basically I ended up searching for a description of the .PDB file format and using that to decode the tree structure from the synced back-ups. It took a bit of trial and error as well as some bitwise operations (my first experience with those). IIRC, the Palm data was stored as unsigned bytes, and I was using Java...