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 -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201502141848.28526.ghesk...@wdtv.com
