dat file

[slimcan]

It never ends. My teacher sends me a file that has the ext dat. You would think by now people would use basicly the commom stuff. What the heck is a dat file. The teacher is not good at computors so I dont think she knows what she sent me. But I would like to open the file. How?

[johnnyis42]

chances are it's a word doc, but your techer sent the backup file instead of the document.

this is a complete guess on my part. first thing i always do with a wierd extension is open it with note pad and see if it has text in it or a bunch of wierd characters. usually if it is a proprietary file format it will have a plaintext description of the file tupe at the very beginning of the file even if the rest is giberish.

[slimcan]

That makes sence! Because she said it was made in word. Anyway she cut and pasted it to the mail instead of an attachment. Conclusion is that I just learned somthing. Thanks