Actually if you open it in Word using "Recover text from any
file" you can not only read it but even parse it.

> From: janel 
> On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 11:04:03 -0500, Dave 
> wrote in message news::
>> This would be a question for Jane L., but she doesn't seem to come
>> around much anymore.
>> 
> No, I'm still here - just behind in my reading.
> I haven't upgraded to 2.0, but I have had the corruption problem a
> couple of times with earlier versions.  You can tell which file is
> which by opening the dat file with notepad.  It looks like garbage,
> but there's usually enough visible to identify which newsgroup it's
> for.

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