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

Every PC I've worked on recognizes files with the .XLS extension as Excel
files.  However, since the file will not be in the Excel format, I believe
the user will have to go through the steps of confirming the data layout.

I also believe comma separated variable format will be fine unless your
commas will be in numeric data. 

Note also that there is a PTF that must be applied for the CPYTOIMPF command
to function properly, but I don't know which it is for V4R5.

Hope that helps.

Donald R. Fisher, III
Project Manager
The Roomstore Furniture Company
(804) 784-7600 extension 2124
DFisher@roomstoreeast.com

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The attachment will be a file created on the 400 and it needs to be in a
format that will cause Excel to open it when the recipient clicks on it from
the email.  It would appear that tab-delimited format would be preferable to
comma-separated values format because of the potential for commas in the
data. 
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