.snp wtf!

[neil woolford]

On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 15:04 +0000, Sarangan Thuraisingham wrote:
> neil woolford wrote:
> > One of my brother's suppliers has just sent him a quote as an email
> > attachment in .snp format.  That is Microsoft Access Snapshot format, a
> > 'special' way of doing something that shouldn't be done a 'special'
> > way...
> > 
> [...]
> > 
> > Are there any ways of opening these pernicious files on a Linux system?

> 
> You could ask the supplier to send the file as a PDF. The latest 
> versions of Microsoft Office Suite allows exporting to PDF.

Yes.  A good idea.  It was a price quote, so there *is* a good
commercial argument for using a format that can't easily be 'doctored'
by an unscrupulous recipient (e.g. to show to other suppliers to obtain
lower quotes);  but something that weird, when PDF does indeed serve the
purpose...

Neil

Who used to work at Soton University;  I had a flat just around the
corner in Furzedown Road.
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