It's definitely possible to read the strings from the dat files with strings (or text editor) but the dat files are a structured database. Two subsequent string

It's definitely possible to read the strings from the dat files with strings (or text editor) but the dat files are a structured database. Two subsequent strings aren't necessarily related to each other, I'd guess they were simply received from the server sequentially. After posting I went hunting myself and found some interesting things to try: An ICQ DB spec from Miranda NG: https://github.com/miranda-ng/miranda-ng/blob/master/plugins/Import/docs/import-ICQ_Db_Specs.txt https://github.com/miranda-ng/miranda-ng/blob/master/plugins... Java exporter tool: https://github.com/patric-r/ICQExport https://github.com/patric-r/ICQExport