On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:38:55PM +1000, Roman Black wrote:
>
> You can save it as a .txt file and look at it in
> notepad or other text editor. Just be careful that
> windows doesn't try to run it, normally if it is
> tagged .txt windows will just load the data into
> the text viewer and it's pretty safe.

However be REALLY sure, that it is .txt, and not .txt.exe or .txt.pif
or something like this. Many worms/viruses send themselves in attachments
with such extensions. When window$ displays filenames with hidden extensions
(the default setting), the user may think that she/he is opening the
safe "txt" file, while in fact she/he is running the infected EXE or script
:-(.
BTW. Has someone estimated the losses in global economy caused by crappy
design of M$ OS'es?
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