Open dat. file on Mac

[mjastoria]

Welcome beginner. Please answer all of the questions below which may provide information necessary to answer your question.
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Which version of OpenOffice.org are you using? 2.4
What Operating System (version) are you using? Mac Tiger
What is your question or comment?

I can't open a dat. file on my Mac with the OpenOffice application without getting a jumble
of computer language.

[Hagar Delest]

dat files are not for documents I think. From where do you get them? email? In that case, it's a container used to package an attachment that has not been recognized by the mail server.