..dat is a generic extension for ANY data. It could have been generated by ANY application in ANY format. If you see "funky chars", it is probably because they are not chars, but binary data. NotePad won't give you much information about binary data. Search the web to see if you can download from somewhere a program called HEdit, it will display a file in both ASCII and binary format. You may also use it to look at the ,exe file of the DOS application and see if you can find any information about the system which created it and some library which was used. This could give you some hint about the format of the data file.
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