i made a really basic program to make a text file then transfer it to a dat file and in tried to make it read the program back to me when i run the program here is the code
thanksCode:#include<iostream>
#include <windows.h>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
system("rename thing.txt thing.dat");
system ("\"C:\\WINDOWS\\Desktop\\thing.dat\"")
;}
EDIT
i use dev-C++