Tom,
It is a fortran binary file, word loads it but does not recognize it.
Thx
Dan

"Tom Ogilvy" wrote:

What application produced the file?
What do you know about the format of the file?

for example, an xls is written in a binary format and you would need to know
the format to interpret the file (basically do what excel does)

Are you sure it is binary. Have you tried opening it in word?

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Dan" wrote in message
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Is it possible to:
1) open a binary file
B) convert to text
Thanks
Dan