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Name: mike
Date: September 28, 2002 at 09:05:06 Pacific
Subject: decompiling a .dat file
OS: 98
CPU/Ram: 144
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is their a way to decompile a dat file so you can veiw it in words that you can understand


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Name: borelli33
Date: September 28, 2002 at 09:54:39 Pacific
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.DAT files aren't actually compiled (per se). They are simply a collection of data organized into a structure called a data set or record. In order to 'understand' what they contain you usually have to have foreknowledge of the structure of that record.

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