From: "Geo" 

In your example explorer will use the program associated with txt files.
However if you download a jpg and change the extension to htm, IE will open
it like a jpg. Likewise if you download a wmf and change the extension to
htm, IE will open it as a wmf.

Geo.

"Ellen K."  wrote in message
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> If on downloading an attachment the user saves it as a text file (.txt),
> will the machine see it as a text file or as what it started out as?

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