[Ham-Computers] INT .FNM File

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Group,

Does anyone know what a ".FNM" file is?  It should have been a ".CSV" 
supplied by the Texas state sales tax authority whose web site described it as "comma 
delimited".  But when I downloaded it, I discovered that although the data 
fields were in fact separated by commas, the lines were separated by what 
displays in Notepad as a single vertical hollow rectangle (taller than it is wide).  
If I place the cursor to the right of the rectangle and press Enter, the next 
line wraps but the end of the previous line now has three of the rectangles.  
I can't find a hollow rectangle in the standard ASCII character chart.  If 
there were only a few lines, I'd just clean it up manually while damning all 
politicians.  But the file contains a line for every city, town and minor village 
in Texas along with its sales tax rate.  At a guess from the file size, 
possibly 5000 lines.

73
Robert Downs - Houston
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