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Old 03-18-2005, 05:46 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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I'm not sure if this is legal, or if the question even makes any sense, but what I'm looking for is an app that can let you view files stored in a dat file. Any help would be appreciated, and ridicule is welcome seeing as how I'm probably making a fool out of my self by asking.
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Old 03-18-2005, 06:25 PM   #2 (permalink)
 
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Try to open them in notepad
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Old 03-18-2005, 06:30 PM   #3 (permalink)
 
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I tried that a long time ago, you get a total mess. I'm pretty confident that the dat is a whole bunch of txt files, but I haven't been able to find any progs that can open it and have it appear coherent.
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sorry bout that, dont no then
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Old 03-18-2005, 08:36 PM   #5 (permalink)
 
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don't worry about it. I have a feeling that its something that you have to unpack on a file by file basis. I was just hoping that there was some sort of program, or tutorial even that would help me open some dat files so I can look at source for some old games.
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i have no idea whether this will work or not but u might be successful trying to un-RAR the with like win-RAR or something. Works for heaps of other files.
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