The .dcf file format is a gzip file with some stuff prepended and appended. To convert it to plain text / XML: Open the file in a binary-safe editor. At the beginning will be a string like 'wapac02_dkbs_dap26950' -- remove this and save the file. Now pipe the file to gzip -- gzip will complain about 'unexpected end of input', so it won't just decompress in place, but this works: cat config.dcf | gunzip > out.xml