"John Rumm" wrote in message
o.uk...


To save too much more collective brain racking, with everyone trying to
think of ever more exotic programs to open it with, I can confirm that the
document is knackered beyond recovery. Its only 162 bytes in length, and
most of those are nulls!

Maybe its a link to the real file somewhere on his computer?
It wouldn't be the first time someone has mailed a shortcut although i think
they are usually more readable.