dennis@home wrote:
"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.

The e-mail only came from Reading :-)


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Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk