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Teamwith1
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Posted: 11th Jun 2012 20:21
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When you have a program that makes a .dat file it is encrypted right?
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basjak
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Posted: 12th Jun 2012 08:21
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No. it's written in byte code. this is why it looks encrypted.

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Posted: 12th Jun 2012 09:37 Edited at: 12th Jun 2012 09:38
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When you write a file to your computer, you are the one that determines what goes into it. The file isn't encrypted when you save it, but that doesn't mean that what you write to it can't be encrypted. Try running this code:



Then open up the file "testing.dat". You'll see a mess of weird characters. The data is still there though, and you can read it in again with this:



Those aren't the only commands you can use, here's a list of the type of data you can write to a file:



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