files with ".do" extensions

[NoOp]

On 07/29/2010 04:10 PM, Nathan Bahn wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:49 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>> On 07/28/2010 10:00 PM, Nathan Bahn wrote:
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> NoOp--
> 
> I know that I'm pretty clueless when it comes to Linux; but the magnitude of
> my cluelessness was brought home to me just now when I realized that I
> fundamentally do not understand your question -- so all I can do is tell you
> how I encounter across the damned thing and hope (and pray!) that I end up
> providing the information that you're requesting.
> 
> In my household, I'm responsible for generating the monthly billing
> statement from Dish Network (before then calculating everyone's share of
> that bill).  Generally, I try to get the statement the day that it's posted
> online, and printing it *properly* up has never posed a problem before -- so
> I never payed any attention to the type of file extension (if that's the
> proper term?).  Just recently I upgraded to to 10.04 -- and I have no idea
> if that is related to this problem that just now popped up (other problems
> have popped up since I upgraded, but I'm able to tolerate them).  The
> billing statement is a file that I have to download (Interestingly enough,
> the URLs of the Dish Network webpages that are https end with ".do".  I just
> now realized that.  Interesting.) has a ".do" extension.

OK. Understand now. The .do (in your case) is a javascript web
extension. For example:

https://www.att.com/view/billPayReflectionAction.do

I do not have Dish Network, however as you can see from the above I have
AT&T. When reviewing the bill online, I have two options: 1) download
the bill in PDF format, 2) print the bill (pay the bill is never a good
option in my case :-). I typically elect to download the PDF, but if I
print I print directly to a PDF using the cups-pdf printer (you can do
the same without cups-pdf by printing to 'Print to File|Output format
PDF'). The result should be sufficient & clear. If it's not, then I
would check your browser.