Re: Is it safe to open a text file in Internet Explorer?

From: Jim Carlock (anonymous_at_localhost)
Date: 03/12/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 23:46:05 -0500

Don't bother with the Error 1 stuff or Error 2 stuff there.
They'll just confuse things.

What we are dealing with here are manifest type files with
a .txt extension.

Here's the link that deals with the Service Pack 6 problem
for Visual Studio. Specifically it was a problem with the
MSCOMCTL.OCX control file and a ListView control
where if you moved the column headers the app would
crash (SP6 only). The fix for SP6 was to provide a manifest
file with the problem software...
http://www.microcosmotalk.com/images/xpsp6/error3.asp

I didn't want to bother with the Service Pack 6 issue, so this
is just historical information. The app crashing generated an
XML file which would be sent to Microsoft. I happened to
put that XML file up on the website last year and used IE
to try to view it. I noticed IE didn't use the extension to read
the file, but read the contents of the file ( and thus it's looking
at it as a manifest ??? ). And I stumbled onto the link while
looking for something else and it took me a few hours to
figure out what it was all about... and so here we are. 

--
Jim Carlock
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