Reading unknown file format

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Hi experts,

I am new to octave. I have tried to read a file of unknown file format
(windows). 
I would like to read it into octave and save it as text/ascii file so that I
can read and explore text in it. Lets say, that's what you normally do in a
export to text function.

It would be great if there is already kind of generic reader for unknown
file formats?
Thanx for any hint. 



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