RE: Double-click emailed AS400-created file and open up in Excel,automagically

Tom,

The file will be emailed only to internal clients - everyone's
standardized.

Vern,

A .txt file will only open up Notepad.  The x'05' is giving me weird
results.  I'm at home now, so I'll have to provide specifics when i get
back on Tuesday.

- Dan

--- Tom Liotta <qsrvbas@netscape.net> wrote:
> Dan:
> 
> AFAIK, the only reasonable ways of doing that are to look at each PC
> to see what the file associations are and use whatever extension
> seems best for your environment (including defining your own
> association) or to create a 'Scrap Object' or similar workaround.
> That is, if you sent a .CSV file to me, it wouldn't open with Excel
> automatically. Every PC can be different.
> 
> OTOH, a .XLS file _would_ open with Excel on this system; but you
> probably wouldn't want to use that extension because of the implied
> internal structure and possible misunderstandings.
> 
> Whatever extension you use, be aware that there will be no
> guarantees. I'd guess that .CSV is as good as you'll get.
> 
> Tom Liotta
> 
> 
> midrange-l-request@midrange.com wrote:
> 
> >   2.  Double-click emailed AS400-created file and open up in Excel,
> >      automagically (Dan)
> >
> >From: Dan <dbcemid@yahoo.com>
> >
> >  This question is specific to determining the
> >requirements for an AS/400-created file that double-clicking on the
> >attachment will automagically open it up in Excel.)
> 
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