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  3. January 2003

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

...but if you double-click a .txt file, it will open in Notepad, not
Excel (by default)

The original poster (sorry, I don't remember who) wanted something that
will automatically open in Excel.

Personally, I recommend CSV.

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Vern Hamberg wrote:

> Dan, I think .txt works for tab-delimited - Excel understands this
> intrinsically, IIRC.
>
> Tab in EBCDIC is x'05', in ASCII it's x'09'. So use x'05' on the 400 -
> it'll get translated properly.
>

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