Re: .MDH file...any clues?

2011-07-11 Thread Rob Davies
Mike, Eugene, It is just a word processing file. Hence, a text file with specific formatting saved by relevant program. It should open with textedit or any text editor (Word Processor), possibly not with format or specifics of said program. If curious and issues still. Send file of list Chee

Re: .MDH file...any clues?

2011-07-11 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Mike, If you haven’t given up yet, this might be of some help: Cheers, Ronni On 11/07/2011, at 3:04 PM, Mike Murray wrote: > > Thanks Rod, Eugene > > Downloaded the program on th

Re: .MDH file...any clues?

2011-07-11 Thread Mike Murray
Thanks Rod, Eugene Downloaded the program on the Mac and transferred the .exe program (by flash drive) onto a Vista laptop (rarely gets used and is not connected to the internet), program set-up worked, program opened, just like a normal word processor, but would not open the file, Error messa

Re: .MDH file...any clues?

2011-07-10 Thread Eugene
Hi Mike, further to this, if you have access to a PC you can download and run the application from here, it is free.

Re: .MDH file...any clues?

2011-07-10 Thread Eugene
Hi Mike, a little research reveals the following. It appears to be a specialist Word Processing document but should open up in a basic text editor - as you said with additional formatting characters. I don't think it is a database, perhaps just a table of data. Ask the person to sent it again

Re: .MDH file...any clues?

2011-07-10 Thread Rob Davies
Hindi Word Processor File http://filext.com/file-extension/MDH Cheers! `RobD... On 11Jul2011, at 9:28 am, Mike Murray wrote: > > Hi muggers > > We've downloaded some files from an obscure UK university lecturer who refers > to them as databases. They may be quite old (early 2000s). > > T

.MDH file...any clues?

2011-07-10 Thread Mike Murray
Hi muggers We've downloaded some files from an obscure UK university lecturer who refers to them as databases. They may be quite old (early 2000s). The file extension is .mdh. I can open with Textedit and can see that there is text in there (mixed up with the usual characters that describe so