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