GR,
Like multi I've been wondering about this myself. I don't know for sure but my guess is no. There might be a utility out there that will convert them for you, but I don't know of any. I guess what you can do is copy and paste the dat files into your shared folder for whatever program you want to test. Don't worry GR, don't think of yourself as a guinea pig, but rather think about all the happy users that will benefit from this experiment
What will most likely happen is that the program won't recognize the foreign file, and you'll just end up sad and depressed that you can't finish your long awaited dat files
Don't worry there is a support goup for this:
Hi, I'm JohnDoe and welcome to the incomplete dat file support group. We will drink beer day and night and talk incoherently until 5 am in the morning
Let it all out GR, you'll feel better