Lord of the Rings Online DAT Extractor

Tool for extracting files from Turbine .dat game archives [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]

Just unpack DAT_UNPACKER.exe and datexport.dll to your game folder.

Usage: DAT_UNPACKER <.dat file> <flags> <file_id>
.dat file is your game archive with .dat extension
flags - optional parameter for some customization
file_id - optional parameter for extracting only one file (by it's id) from archive. It requires 512 flag (see below).

Flags:
01 - extract wav files
02 - extract ogg files
04 - extract jpeg files
08 - extract dds files
16, 32, 64, 128 are reserved for future common formats
256 - extract raw Turbine files (extracting with .bin extension by default)
512 - extract required file (if file_id argument is not empty and such files presents inside container, it will be extracted).
1024 - no extracting any files, just generating filelist for container.
2048 - extracting file as raw ignoring extension detection code.

can you write a full command as an example.for example "filelist of client_meshes.dat".and is there any way to re-compress?

How ? I'm not author of this tool and dont have source codes.