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PRB: Unable to Open Files That Have Certain Extensions

Article ID: 125472

Article Last Modified on 10/24/2003

Microsoft FORTRAN PowerStation 1.0 Standard Edition
Microsoft Fortran PowerStation 1.0a for MS-DOS
Microsoft FORTRAN PowerStation 32

This article was previously published under Q125472

SYMPTOMS

Files saved with the following extensions cannot be opened as text files in the Visual Workbench:

.RES
.CUR
.BMP
.EXE

CAUSE

Visual Workbench is used with other products that reserve these extensions for specific purposes. It would normally launch tools to handle these files. However, these tools are not available in the FORTRAN PowerStation product.

RESOLUTION

Save the files using a different extension.

STATUS

Although this original behavior was by design, it was modified in Microsoft Fortran PowerStation 32, version 4.0. The 4.0 version of Developer Studio allows you to open these files and displays their components and component attributes.

MORE INFORMATION

FORTRAN PowerStation 32 version 1.0 gives the following message when trying to open these files as a text file:

The file is a binary file and cannot be read.

Additional query words: 1.00 1.00a

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