Anonymous - 2001-08-19

I downloaded a .dat file from a VCD from Usenet.  Is there a straightforward way to just burn this right back to a VCD with cdrdao?  I have vcdgear, so I could convert the .dat to a .mpg and then to a .bin/.cue, but this seems ridiculously roundabout, since .dat is supposed to be the data right off the CD.