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How to open .dat attachments ?
Posted by: pipiens
Date: June 12, 2008 07:05PM
I keep getting Email with .dat attachments is there any way to open them? I am using Leopard. I see references to TNEF's Enough and OMiC but it is not clear that either will work with Leopard. Any ideas?
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Re: How to open .dat attachments ?
Posted by: edgarbc1
Date: June 12, 2008 07:50PM
ANSYS (FEA program) data file?
which is just a text file
but it is pretty old school
the current extension is .inp
(for input file)
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Re: How to open .dat attachments ?
Posted by: hal
Date: June 12, 2008 07:51PM
.dat is just a data file - could be music, video or anything...

if you KNOW what kind of media it is, just use an app that work with that kind of media
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Re: How to open .dat attachments ?
Posted by: pipiens
Date: June 12, 2008 08:01PM
They are text files from Microsoft Outlok or Exchange. You can see some of the text with a lot of gibberish using Text Edit
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Re: How to open .dat attachments ?
Posted by: M A V I C
Date: June 12, 2008 08:05PM
[www.macupdate.com]

The Leopard compatible version is in beta, but available from their site.



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Re: How to open .dat attachments ?
Posted by: Acer
Date: June 12, 2008 08:20PM
If you know what it is, like a jpeg or a microsoft word document, change the extension to ".jpg" or ".doc" or whatever it should be and open it as normal.
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Re: How to open .dat attachments ?
Posted by: TheTominator
Date: June 12, 2008 08:20PM
Just ask the people who send these to you ...

Whud .dat?
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Re: How to open .dat attachments ?
Posted by: hal
Date: June 12, 2008 08:30PM
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pipiens
They are text files from Microsoft Outlok or Exchange. You can see some of the text with a lot of gibberish using Text Edit

then it's probably just an email document - I bet you're getting these in forwarded emails. 95% chance they are just an Outlook file that is the same as the content of the email that it was sent with.
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Re: How to open .dat attachments ?
Posted by: M A V I C
Date: June 12, 2008 08:45PM
Oy. So much misinformation.

I googled, found this. At first glance it seems good:
[facstaff.gpc.edu]



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Re: How to open .dat attachments ?
Posted by: billb
Date: June 12, 2008 09:20PM
If I were to send you some of my .dat files you might open them with a text editor, but you would just get a mile long scroll to the right of non-sensical letters and numbers.
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Re: How to open .dat attachments ?
Posted by: pipiens
Date: June 12, 2008 09:43PM
Thanks M A V I C

I missed seeing the availability of a Leopard beta when I visited the site.

I have put in a request for it.
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Re: How to open .dat attachments ?
Posted by: Markintosh
Date: June 12, 2008 10:38PM
I've used this one quite a bit:

[www.versiontracker.com]


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Re: How to open .dat attachments ?
Posted by: Dick Moore
Date: June 13, 2008 09:55PM
The wonderful thing about Windows users is that they have no idea what kind of files their email clients send out, particularly those nasty .dat files from outlook, etc., so asking them is useless. Most of them have no idea what a file is or what an app is, and so, really, they're just like Mac users.......


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