Opening E-Mail Attachmants

When I attempt to open an E-Mail attachment, I get the following
message: "This file is too large for Notepad to open. Would you like
WordPad to read this file?" When I click on "yes" I get nothing but
gibberish.Is there any way that I can read this file?

Clem Kashmar wrote:
When I attempt to open an E-Mail attachment, I get the following
message: "This file is too large for Notepad to open. Would you like
WordPad to read this file?" When I click on "yes" I get nothing but
gibberish.Is there any way that I can read this file?

Open it with the proper program for the file extension...which is...?

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Clem Kashmar had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

When I attempt to open an E-Mail attachment, I get the following
message: "This file is too large for Notepad to open. Would you like
WordPad to read this file?" When I click on "yes" I get nothing but
gibberish.Is there any way that I can read this file?

Are you using a firewall that changes the extension of email attachments or
an anti-virus application that's doing the same thing?

Galen
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Rest well Alex and we'll see you on the other side.

Are you sure that this file contains plain text that Notepad or Wordpad can
understand? If the attachment is an image or some other type of non-text
file then you are going to see gibberish when you open it with a text
editor.
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Clem Kashmar" wrote in message
...
When I attempt to open an E-Mail attachment, I get the following
message: "This file is too large for Notepad to open. Would you like
WordPad to read this file?" When I click on "yes" I get nothing but
gibberish.Is there any way that I can read this file?

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"Clem Kashmar" wrote in message
...
When I attempt to open an E-Mail attachment, I get the following
message: "This file is too large for Notepad to open. Would you like
WordPad to read this file?" When I click on "yes" I get nothing but
gibberish.Is there any way that I can read this file?