opening a .DAT file on my MBP

Can Anyone help me regading opening a >dat file on my MBP. I tried

http://www.joshjacob.com/mac-development/tnef.php

but it was for OSX 10.8 I recently upgraded to 10.9 and does not work for me.

Thanks any help is welcome

Does not work how? Do you get some sort of error message?

Where did the dat file come from? If it's a Windows dat file you may not be able to open it with anything from your Mac. Depends on what kind it is. The first thing I would try is to see if it will open with TextEdit. Certain kinds of dat files are created by Windows Outlook Express and Outlook.

I tries to install the software but nothing works. means it does not even open any window.

Regarding from where the file is coming from. It is the image of a waveform from a digital oscilloscope.

Any help is accepted.

Thanks again

If it is an image, what happens if you change the extension to JPG and press the spacebar.
Does it open ?

Cheers ... McBie

Open it in TextEdit and post the first few lines here...

I tried to change the extension to JPG but no results. This is the info obtained when opened using text edit.

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I don't recognise it, may be a proprietary format. Does the scope come with software? Or does it give the option of file type to export to? Was that the entire file?

When I run TNEF's enough, all I get is an icon on the dock for the running program. If I remember correctly, you drop the .dat on that icon and it then kicks off the extraction. Did you try that?

Ill try that hope it works