Re: FN-FORUM: Windoze .dat file

date posted 21st March 2006 10:44

On Tuesday 21 March 2006 11:18, Guy Hannaford wrote:
> Hi all,
> A client has e-mailed me a load of artwork and the attachment has arrived
> as a .dat file. Does anyone know how to open one of these? I've been
> googling for an answer but nothing I've found works (I know, obvious answer
> is just to ask the client to resend data but they're not available for rest
> of day & I'd like not to waste more time). TIA.
> Guy.

It might be some antivirus mix-up as Terry suggested; but every time I've seen
one of these, it's been MS Exchange putting the attachment/message in MS-TNEF
format.

There are converters around somewhere!

HTH

Matt