seemed pretty reasonable to me seemed to be good advice seemed to be good follow up questions for clarification Perhaps this is not a place for people with thin skins and are quick to assume insults... Some of us come from a time when this was the rule for mail lists... http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html where one of the earliest points made was to use meaninful, subject headers Do you really want to continue this digression? Craig On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 19:44 -0600, Scott Berry wrote: > Frank, > > I don't appreciate the way you treated my Dad. This was uncalled for. He > is 75 years old and learning computers. Come on can't you be a little more > friendlier? > > Scott > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Frank Cox" <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 3:23 PM > Subject: Re: How to open a db file -- was: Need to know > > > > On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:15:37 -0600 > > Art Giles <ag@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Please try to come up with more descriptive subject lines than "need to > > know". > > Subject lines are intended to serve a useful purpose and are not just > > "dead > > space" that you should fill in with anything at all that's not related to > > your > > actual subject or question. > > > > Having said that: > > > >> Hi how do you open a db file > > > > That depends entirely on what created your "db file". A moment of Google > > search tells me that it could be a file created by Filemaker Pro or > > Microsoft > > Access. If it's "thumbs.db" then that's a file of thumbnail graphics used > > by > > Windows Explorer. > > > > It could also be an Ansys database, an Arcview Object Database file, > > or something created by Synopsys Design Compiler, dbVista, Paradox, > > Smartware, > > XTreeGold. > > > > There are about 17 other programs that apparently create a "db file", plus > > ghawd-knows how many others that aren't on the list that I'm looking at. > > > > So.... What created it? > > > > -- > > MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > >