C++ doesn't have any proprietary data file format. So... see if you can decode the files. If you have the C++ code, you can look to see how the data is written into the files and write a program to convert it to ascii. But, probably, you don't have the code.

Vlad

>I have a client that has an existing c++ application. How can I take his data and convert it into ascii. His files have .z extension.
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>Any ideas? A nice contract depends on the this conversion.
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>Thanks,
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>Ben Javid