You can open .DAT files that contain text, with text editors, like Notepad, Notepad++, VS Code, etc. But it is not possible to know what contains in a DAT file.

Anyone know of a way on a win98 machine that I can create an icon that will prompt the user to open a file, and then open it in notepad?I thought for sure there was a command line switch that ...

And Notepad defaults to margin settings that don’t accommodate a typical 80-column text file. If you want a quick hard copy of your plain text files, the formatting change may distract from ...

Command-Line Arguments for Notepad Notepad isnâ t just a basic text editorâ you can actually open and manipulate files using Notepad commands in the command line.

I need to open up 4 text files at a time all with the same name but with different extensions. I've created a very simple batch file to take care of this using notepad, but it will only open up ...

Step 5. Open Notepad. Click File, Page Setup. Write down the margin, header, and footer values, then change them. Click OK, and then close Notepad. Now restart Notepad and click File, Page Setup ...

Notepad saves a file in .txt format. By using Print to PDF and Save As options, you can save it as PDF and HTML in Windows 11/10.

Notepad's tab support allows users to open multiple files in a single window, similar to how Microsoft implemented tabs in File Explorer in Windows 11.

The new Snipping Tool update for Insiders adds a new combined capture bar and new audio capture options, while the new Notepad app update will automatically save your session state.

Microsoft announced ample of upgrades to its Notepad including dark mode, support for multi undo, and others, since the launch of Windows 11 last year.