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Article #11732Re: Downloading Windows Files
From: Aandi Inston
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 19:31
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 19:31
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I know you want a simple answer. There is NO simple answer. These are files your computer does not know how to open. That means, probably, that you don't have the right program to open those files. Windows uses the last part of the file name to work out what program opens a file. Sometimes it guesses wrong, but mostly not: Here are just a very few of the kinds of file and program: DOC file - Microsoft Word XLS file - Microsoft Excel PDF file - Adobe Acrobat AI file - Adobe Illustrator PM6, P65 - Adobe PageMaker QXD - QuarkXPress WPD - Word Perfect ZIP,UUE,TAR - Winzip (and ohers) and lots and lots and lots more. There are hundreds of thousands of different programs, and you need to know the right one for the job. That's all there is to it. There's no magic program that will do all those jobs. (Some people have been claiming Acrobat Reader will open anything, but that's just rubbish - it opens files only of one type, called PDF). If you don't know which one - and there's no way to guess - then read the e-mail carefully. If it doesn't tell you, then don't be shy - contact the sender and ask them what to do. Aandi Inston
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