[Ham-Computers] INT .FNM File

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Jay,

No and no.  I can open it with Excel.  And if I start Excel first instead of 
doing an Open With from Windows Explorer, a wizard comes up that eventually 
brings it up looking right.  But it will not save from that such that next time 
it will open without using the wizard.  And the little rectangles aren't 
carriage return/line feeds.  If they were, Notepad and Wordpad (et al) would wrap 
the line at them instead of displaying them.  And if it were a proper .CSV 
Excel would open it properly instead of opening with all fields in one column.

However, after I discovered today that by first starting Excel and then 
browsing to and opening it and going through the wizard, I also discovered that 
although it can't save it as an .XLS or a .CSV, it can save it as a .DBF which 
was why I was trying to get to .CSV in the first place.

But still, no one has come up with what an .FNM file is supposed to be.

In a message dated 1/11/2005 7:57:31 PM Central Standard Time, 
ad5pe at familynet.net writes: 
> If it's actually a csv file, it will import into Excel regardless of the
> extension.
> 
> The little squares are carriage returns, most likely.  Excel should
> figure them out on its own.

73
Robert Downs - Houston
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