Not necessarily true? What does that mean? It is not ascii text. wordpad is a word processor. .doc is gibberish in an ascii reader Email is ascii text. Jack F nightsneak wrote: > > >>You can't read a wordpad .doc in a .txt program like notepad. > > Not necessarily true. It normally puts up a screen saying that not all of > the coding may work, and do you want to open it anyway. If you say yes, it > normally gives you the text of the message. > > Notice that I said "normally". There may be instances where you get > gibberish. > > nightsneak ============================== Tact and diplomacy is no defense against muggers <http://www.gunsmith.fuselier.com> East Texas To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/