Re: Strange file type from insurance company site, iceweasal spins forever
On Saturday, February 14, 2015 05:41:30 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?
>
> Lisi
See the previous couple of posts Lisi, in spite of iceweasal playing dead
in a frozen sandbox, it did actually download the .pdf in question. So
the problem that elicited the question is solved.
Thanks.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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