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

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

Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 15:39:53 -0500

I've run into a strange problem. Yesterday, when I sent the
.txt file to Internet Explorer and opened it up, I got the error
that you see when you open it up from the website. I thought
I tried it quite a few times and the warning displayed itself
consistently. But before I jump to conclusions, I could have
only read it off the website as a .txt file and then assumed it
was happening when it was a local file on my system.

Today for some reason when I send it to Internet Explorer
(IE is in my SendTo list next to FireFox) the .txt file is reading
like a text file. It still presents the error message though when
I open it from the website. So before I go any farther, maybe
someone could save it to the HDD on their system and open
it up on their system with Internet Explorer and let me know
if they get the same message as when they're reading it of the
Internet. IF it's happening the same on your local HDD as it
is when it's being read off the Internet, then something
happened to my system yesterday.

Thanks. 

--
Jim Carlock
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