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By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com Guide to Email since 1997

WMDecode 1.11 - The DAT File and the Weasels

Monday August 25, 2008
WMDecode - Winmail.dat Decoding Tool
A DAT fell on the floor.
Caught by a weasel, it pleaded for its life. The weasel refused. "I'm all attachments' natural enemy," it said.
"Ah," the DAT countered, "I'm not an attachment at all. I'm an entire email!" The weasel let the DAT go.
A DAT (the same DAT) fell on the floor again.
Caught by another weasel, it pleaded for its life. The weasel refused: "I detest emails, entire emails, above all."
"Oh," the DAT said calmly, "what a coincidence! I'm no email at all. I'm but an attachment." The second weasel let the DAT go.
WMDecode, too, will treat the slick and enigmatic DAT file well — after it has handed over all its attachments:
›› WMDecode efficiently and very simply gets documents out of mysterious winmail.dat attachments. (Windows)

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