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

.csv is normally associated with excel.  Comma delimiter works fine, fields
with embedded ,s or quotes are surrounded by double quotes.

Alex


> The archives mentions CPYTOIMPF can create a CSV file, and I see that
> you can specify the field delimiter, which defaults to a comma.  I saw
> in the archives someone suggested using x'05' on this parameter to
> create a tab-delimited file, although there was confusion on whether it
> should be x'05' or x'09'.  FWIW, we're on v4r5.  Assuming that one of
> these creates the tab-delimited file, what file extension should we use
> in order to help Excel recognize it properly, without asking the user
> to specify "what kind of file is this?" factoids?
>
> TIA, Dan