"John Rumm" wrote in message
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dennis@home wrote:


"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.

Links tend to include path references and file names etc. This does not.

It might if its in unicode from say a Chinese version of windows.
They have two bytes per character so looking at one is gibberish.