[Ham-Computers] INT .FNM File

[Loren Moline WA7SKT]

fnm is a Fannie Mae Format I think.

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Loren Moline WA7SKT  CN86cx
Member: ARRL, Pacific Northwest VHF Society #151
2 Meter EME initials = 55
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>From: WA5CAB at cs.com
>Reply-To: "Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications,  or 
>experimenting" <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
>To: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] INT .FNM File
>Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:42:22 EST
>
>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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