Paul Lamar wrote:

Print this out and fold it up and put it in your pocket next
time you go to an air show. When someone tells you his
200 HP engine is burning only 7 gallons an hour you can whip
it out and prove him wrong :)

Russell Kent responded:

Paul,
The file you sent out is a *.dat file.  What did you intend it to be?

Paul replied:

A .dat file. What was wrong with that? NS auto displays it as a
plain txt file.

Well, Outlook 2003 doesn't know what to do with it.  I can't fault
Microsoft, however: *.dat is a generic "data" extension with many possible
well-known applications; see:
http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5EDAT%24

For simple text files, I'd recommend *.txt.

Paul Lamar

I got in the habit of using .dat when I program.

Paul Lamar

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