You can certainly read it, even if it is a "binary" file, but to make sense of it, you need to know the file format. It is, of course, easiest if the file is a text file, since you can simply read the numbers. Do you have a specification for the format of the data? If not, you can often times make an educated "guess" (look for periodicities in the data, see if it seems to be lists of 16-bit or 32-bit integers, or if it is a jumble of numbers (usually a sign that you are looking at a floating point, either Sgl or Dbl, representation). Of course, you might also see embedded text ... Best, of course, is having Kistler tell you the file format ...
