[DM-MUG] more on that opening of the document

[Bryan Baker]

Yup, that's pretty much a more detailed version of what I was saying.
I'm relatively certain that's it.

I would expect you could probably rename a copy of it w/ a .doc  
extention and it'd come right up in anything that can do Word OK.

On Oct 30, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:
> I didn't know this::
>
>>
>> The first 4 bytes of every PDF file are "%PDF".
>> Is it possible that it wasn't actually a PDF, but
>> a Word document, that someone had named ".pdf" in
>> the naïve belief that this would create a PDF
>> file? That would justify the failure of any
>> program to open it, and if NeoOffice happens to
>> ignore the extension and instead examines the
>> file contents, that would explain its success.
>
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