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How Do You Read DAT?

Dear Alfred:

Do you know of a Windows program that can read DAT files? I have some on my hard drive that I believe are text files that I might want to print out, but I can't seem to read them with anything that I currently have. Do you have any suggestions?

B.J. Trudel

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Dear B.J.:

The first problem is that many different applications use the DAT file extension for their data files, and these may or may not contain data that you can access easily without the original application. If you know for certain that the files you have contain text, then you should be able to view and print ...

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