On Sunday 15 February 2015 14:27:17 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday, February 15, 2015 06:20:13 AM Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Saturday 14 February 2015 23:40:58 Ric Moore wrote: > > > On 02/14/2015 05:41 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > On Saturday 14 February 2015 21:50:15 Ric Moore wrote: > > > >> On 02/14/2015 04:09 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >>> On Saturday, February 14, 2015 03:15:49 PM Ric Moore wrote: > > > >>>> On 02/14/2015 03:05 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >>>>> I have a "save as" grab from an insurance company web site that > > > >>>>> is supposedly the link to grab a .pdf of a policy of mine > > > >>>>> that's a couple decades or more old. > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> Looked at in a text editor, it resembles somewhat an .html > > > >>>>> file, but has an extension of ".pt", and apparently iceweazal > > > >>>>> is stymied as to what the heck to do with it, so it spins > > > >>>>> forever. > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> Opening up its prefs/applications and entering .pt in the > > > >>>>> search gets me an empty window. > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> Does anyone have a clue what this is? Its potentially worth > > > >>>>> quite a bit of money to me. > > > >>>> > > > >>>> Doah! What do you get if you type > > > >>>> file filename.pt ?? > > > >>>> (insert your filename) Ric > > > >>> > > > >>> gene@coyote:~/Documents$ file ./Aflac-server.pt > > > >>> ./Aflac-server.pt: HTML document, ASCII text, with very long > > > >>> lines, with CRLF, CR, LF line terminators > > > >>> > > > >>> Is that enough to choke iceweasal? > > > >> > > > >> Just for giggles, try opening it with gimp or Office? Ric > > > > > > > > In desperation - vi? Try dos2unix? Then try them all again? > > > > > > I call that trouble shooting with a shot gun. > > > > Not quite, only almost. vi is always a good idea where text is > > concerned. dos2unix can sometimes sort out line terminators. Having > > used dos2unix it would have been worth trying gimp and vi again - > > though not,. of course, Office. > > > > > Shoot enough, you're bound > > > to hit something. > > > > Only if you are shooting in the right direction. And if you hit, that > > is great. We are after all shooting blind. Gene doesn't exactly give > > us enough information for the more usual methods of troubleshooting - > > and if gimp is worth a try, vi certainly is. > > > > Lisi > > As previously posted Lisi, problem is in iceweasal, and solved. Before it > decided to spin forever, it actually did download the pdf I was clicking > on. I found 4 copies in the Downloads directory when I looked.
Pity you didn't look in the first place. I was actually replying to Ric. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201502151440.23481.lisi.re...@gmail.com
