On Wednesday 21 November 2007, 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 > Scott, FWIW, I'm 73 years old. But I've been in electronics and computers for a living since 1951, so I usually know where the ropes are. Frank was a bit brusk maybe, but 100% correct. Bear in mind also this is an all volunteer list, and the polite thing to do when you reply is to say thank you. Something that I in fact forget all too often, and I try to blame it on CRS, but that is a very poor excuse and I know it. My apologies to the list for those lapses in decorum. Oh, and I'm not the oldest 'senior citizen' here, not by about a decade IIRC. > >----- 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 -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) I'm not offering myself as an example; every life evolves by its own laws.
