Saving .txt file from a website

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I have a particular application that requires that I save a *.txt file as a
*.dat file instead. I change the filename and etention to reflect my need
(eg. change receive.txt to receive.dat)I then change the file type in the
save window from text files to all files so that the "*.dat" will be saved as
a .dat file and not a .txt file. Hovever, everytime I do this the file gets
saved as a *.dat.txt - i still adds the .txt extention when I don't want
this? Does anyone know why this is happening?

Steve
 
James, you are brilliant! This works, BUT WHY do I need to do this in this
computer but not in other computers? I have the same problems being addressed
by Microsoft experts in the Partner Newsgroups and they have NOt been able to
solve the problem. They did not come up with the simple response that you
came up with???

Steve
 
Perhaps the Microsoft experts can answer why it is different between the two
machines - they're usually better at the tougher questions ;-)

When long filenames were introduced it no longer became possible to tell
whether someone saving or creating a file of a particular type with a
filename that already included a dot wanted the default extension added or
not. For instance, I might be saving that page as a text file named
'new.sample.page' which is perfectly legal. Do I mean that this should be a
file with filename extension .page, or do I still expect the .txt to be
added? Using quotes was adopted as the means of indicating what I really
wanted the filename to be.
 
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