I don't know how to get the version out of the Database File if you are not able to start it.
Try to simply start a server with that database and capture the output with -z -o server.out. The server. Out file should contain a more specific error telling you why it can't start the database.
This error can occur if you are trying to start something that is not a SQL Anywhere database.
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