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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: MicroPsycho on January 25, 2005, 03:58:19 pm

Title: Opening .DATs?
Post by: MicroPsycho on January 25, 2005, 03:58:19 pm

How does one go about opening a .DAT file?

 are there programs capable of doing so and editing them?

Title: Opening .DATs?
Post by: Liberator on January 25, 2005, 04:07:29 pm

.dat is usually a data file.  sometime it's text(then you're lucky), but more often it's binary and encryted.  I've run across several DAT files in the past that i have tried to open with no success.

Title: Opening .DATs?
Post by: Rictor on January 25, 2005, 04:11:03 pm

http://filext.com/detaillist.php?extdetail=dat&Submit3=Go%21

Title: Opening .DATs?
Post by: MetalDestroyer on January 25, 2005, 04:12:54 pm

Some .dat is only music file, you can open it with Winamp (C&C general and NOLF 2).

Title: Re: Opening .DATs?
Post by: karajorma on January 25, 2005, 05:17:18 pm

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Originally posted by MicroPsycho
How does one go about opening a .DAT file?

 are there programs capable of doing so and editing them?

You first need to know what made it. As Rictor's link shows there is a large array of programs that use that extension.