And absolutely none of this has any relevence to the .NET Compact Framework.
Please trim this group from the To: list in future responses as we just
don't care.


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<Pennywise@DerryMaine.Gov> wrote in message
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> "Lyle Fairfield" <lylefairfield@aim.com> wrote:
>
>>On Feb 18, 12:16 am, "Anykindjob.com" <fwh...******.com> wrote:
>>> I tried filext before I posted here. I am still at lost. The filext
>>> results did not seem to tell me a software to edit a .BLB file.
>>
>>Anyone may and can call a file anything he/she wishes, provided the
>>name meets the requirements of the OS. One can change the name of
>>northwinds.mdb to northwinds.blb and open it in Access. One can set
>>the default open for ".blb" files to Access, or Notepad or whatever we
>>want. These associations were not set down my God on stone tablets.
>>They are entirely arbitrary, although there are strong conventions
>>that are followed in general.
>>
>>We know from other posts that the ACT application uses the extension
>>BLB. This might be a place to start. But there are other applications
>>that separate their database files in data files, index files, and
>>blob files; the blob files are named with the ".blb" extension.
>>You might find some useful information by right clicking the file (in
>>Explorer) and examining its properties. But the only way to be sure
>>what might open the file is to research its history (who/what created
>>it) and to try various applications. Of course, many applications will
>>open the file. You probably want to find one that makes sense of
>>whatever is in the file.
>>Only you, who have the file can answer, "What can open it?"
>>I can make a png file of Brittney. I can name it Brittney.blb. The
>>greatest expert in the world can tell you it should open with ACT. But
>>he/she will be wrong. It will open with "NeedsHelp".
>>
>
> What you say is true and FileAlyzer is a great program to find out
> just what a file is
> http://www.safer-networking.org/en/f...zer/index.html
> among other things it shows the header of the file in question (file
> type)
>
> --
> Pita Ten gives it a try
> http://youtube.com/watch?v=3C7E8ru-Ul0