Reading uknown DB .dat and .idx files

I'm trying to read the tables structure and data of a couple of *.dat and *.idx files. I don't know what DB are they created with - I tried diffrent db managers but noone recognized them. Some file examples are here (rar archive 304 kb): http://zorko.ru/_db2read.rar
Any help much appreciated.

well, you can't really tell what's database these files are for just by extension of filename. Oracle will take any file name extension that does not violate the rule.
the wild guess is .dat is datafiles of tablespace holding data and .idx is datafiles of tablespaces holding indexes.
However if they do for Oracle database you can't read out meaning information from them without properly setup the database. To do that you will need more information.
try to use "strings" to read the file on unix platform, see if you can get anything ring the bell.

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