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Lady Jedi

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Greetings, Swamp dwellers, I need a little help with a confusing file. I am taking some college credits through Penn Foster correspondence school. Whenever they grade any of my writing assignments they leave a link on my student homepage to view the instructor's evaluation file. The problem is that the file shows up as an "application/octet-stream" with no actual file type extension, so I cannot get any program to actually open this and display it in English.

 

I can email my instructor and have them send a Word file, but it would be nice to skip that step and just download my evaluation. Do any of y'all know how get one of these to open?

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Not sure, but if you're submitting a word doc, my guess it's probably a word doc with notes. you could dl it and try looking at it with a hex editor for some clues.

 

often files will have stuff like %png as the first bytes in them because programs don't rely on file extensions to determine file type. for instance, renaming a .jpg to .gif doesn't make it a gif file.

 

edit: if you have notepad++ you could open it w/ that too.

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I used to get that problem viewing YouTube videos in Firefox months and months ago. Click on a link to any video and I"d get that instead. It was pretty ridiculous.

 

Try another browser, yo. That would be my first step.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Thank you, guys. After much trial and error, I was able to click the dl link in Firefox, tell it I wanted to view in IE, tell IE to open the file, save it, and viola! My evaluation!

 

Funny story, though. My grade came in at an 84% and I knew that I had done better than that, so I called the head of the writing department, and asked her to look it over. She immediately disagreed with the other professor's evaluation and regraded. Bumped me to a 96%. Woot! :D

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