You say you got the text file from a friend's website?  It is possible the
file itself is corrupt or did not download correctly. You could try to
download it again.
What extension does the file have?  .txt or .doc or .rtf .pdf?  or something
else?
What is the exact 'error' message when you try to open the file?

Post back with answers to the above questions, perhaps we have missed
something.
Marg Belliveau

----- Original Message -----
From: "Camerons" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 3:54 AM
Subject: [PCSOFT] WordPad Problem


> I've been trying to open a text document that was posted on a friend's
> website, but after I download the document, and select Wordpad to view it,
> it get the good old "illegal operation" message.  I tried using Notepad
but
> it says the document is too large for Notepad.  I don't have any other
> program that will open text documents.  I did a scan disk and defrag, but
> that didn't help.  I went to Windows Setup in Add/Remove Programs, and
> deselected and reselected Wordpad, but that didn't uninstall/reinstall it.
> I'm not very  familiar with how all this stuff works, so any help will
have
> to be pretty detailed.  Thanks for any and all.
>
> Mary Cameron
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