User`s manual

Section 9: Processing Data

5. In the File menu, select Save (not Save As). If you are running

Windows 2000, the following message displays:

You are about to save the document in a Text-Only format, which will

remove all formatting. Are you sure you want to do this?

Ignore the message and click Yes.

6. In the File menu, select Exit.

.dat Files

Sea-Bird is not aware of a technique for editing a .dat file that will not

corrupt it. Opening a .dat file with any text editor corrupts the file by leaving

behind invisible characters (for example, carriage returns, line feeds, etc.)

when the file is closed. These characters, inserted semi-randomly through the

file, corrupt the data format. Sea-Bird distributes a utility program with our

Windows software called Fixdat that may repair a corrupted .dat file.

• Fixdat.exe is installed with, and located in the same directory as,

SBE Data Processing (the data processing software in our Windows suite

of software).