Don't post yourself answers, use improve question or comments. Sorry for not giving a "real" answer, but from your question I had to assume you may need to know about some "basics".ītw. dat file may contain just any type of data. These are just some of the common example of.
dat file may also contain plain text data if it was created by a data output program (e.g. (but you may have a look at the data in the file with a hex-Editor - maybe you can guess some of the information and the formatting) Sometimes, email programs, like MS Outlook, also rename the attachments with. >No: There is hardly a chance you can read and interpret it's contents without knowledge about the format.Ĭonclusion: "dat" file extension doesn't give a hint how the data in the file is formatted, so without format-knowledge - I fear you a lost. Then there is a good chance to read the data. Yes (Because you have a spec, or the source code producing it, or at least know which programm created it.) So do you know the binary Format of the file? )- performance and space is cheap(er) now. These kind of "ad hoc" formatting is now often replaced with more standardized ways. The meaning of such data is only usefull if the context and formatting is known. So, if I needed to store some values in a binary file (reading and formating textfiles costs space and performance), I added the file Extension "dat", meaning "data". I used the dat file extensions in the "old days" a lot (nowadays I'd use XML).
It's commonly used as file extension for any binary data that some programm produces. png extension - where the file extension would correspond with a well documented, standard format for something. dat file exetension is something like a file with.
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