[Ham-Computers] INT .FNM File

[don]

A DBF is a data base file and what you may have is a spin-off of that
DBF's usually open with ACCESS

Don
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Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] INT .FNM File


> 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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