IK have .dat files on my DS-60 digital recorder and they are hiden, and I
clicked on them to look at them, but don't even know what program to look
at them with.  Word Pad shows up nothing.





On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Doreen Yale wrote:

> Hi folks:
> I have received a couple of files with the suffix .dat
> Can anybody tell me what this suffix means, what kind of file it is likely
> to be and whether it is likely to be safe to open it? Windows XP gives me a
> cautionary message when i try to open it, saying that it is a file used by
> the operating system and opening it could compromise my computer.
> Any advice please.
> Thanks.
> DOREEN YALE.
>
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