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Re: Strange file type from insurance company site, iceweasal spins forever



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?

Thanks Ric.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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