[X4U] Dat file extension

[Linda]

On 3/13/08 9:51 AM, LA Licata wrote:

> Any other suggestions (except to buy a windows machine)?

Do you have any text programs, like BBEdit or TextWrangler? They might be
able to get at the text, if not the pictures.

After using Google to search for "how to open .dat file Mac", I started
reading some sites. Apparently there's no single program that creates them.
One of the threads said that even VCD (video CD) comes in a .dat file, so my
suggestion is that you start dropping the file on every app you have --
Word, Excel, Keynote, VLC, QuickTime, Flip4Mac, Maclink Plus, etc. One app
mentioned by name was "VCDGear" for Mac OS and Linux. Maybe you'll find
something that will open it.

Have you dropped it into your home DVD player yet to see if it will play
there?