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mholt@ohiohills.com - 31 May 2008 22:07 GMT
I have a file called MARS.  I'm not sure what the extension is because
Explorer won't reveal it, but I think it's .AFL.   Explorer tells me
it's a "Microsoft Agent Character File (HTTP format)."How can I view
this file?   Nothing I have -- CADStd, Voloview,  DWG Viewer, and a
couple more -- will open it.  They say the file type is unsupported.

I'm looking for a good set of 3-views -- with sections -- of the
Martin M-130, but I found this Mars thing and I want to see it.

Thanks.

Mike
Richard Brooks - 31 May 2008 22:35 GMT
mholt@ohiohills.com said the following on 31/05/2008 22:07:
> I have a file called MARS.  I'm not sure what the extension is because
> Explorer won't reveal it, but I think it's .AFL.   Explorer tells me
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
>
> Mike

This should help.

http://www.microsoft.com/msagent/
someone@some.domain - 01 Jun 2008 00:02 GMT
>mholt@ohiohills.com said the following on 31/05/2008 22:07:
>> I have a file called MARS.  I'm not sure what the extension is because
[quoted text clipped - 13 lines]
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/msagent/

bob again? aaahhh!!!1
Richard Brooks - 01 Jun 2008 01:48 GMT
someone@some.domain said the following on 01/06/2008 00:02:
>> mholt@ohiohills.com said the following on 31/05/2008 22:07:
>>> I have a file called MARS.  I'm not sure what the extension is because
[quoted text clipped - 14 lines]
>
> bob again? aaahhh!!!1

<Peter Griffin>
"I just looked at the first two words in the format, typed 'Character
File' in my search engine and what the crap?  It didn't work!
Ne-heheheheheh-heheheheh - Sweet!"
someone@some.domain - 01 Jun 2008 05:21 GMT
>someone@some.domain said the following on 01/06/2008 00:02:
>> In article <JrGdndgA6tQLWdzVnZ2dnUVZ8v6dnZ2d@bt.com>, Richard Brooks
[quoted text clipped - 22 lines]
>File' in my search engine and what the crap?  It didn't work!
>Ne-heheheheheh-heheheheh - Sweet!"

microshaft, bend over for billy!
mholt@ohiohills.com - 01 Jun 2008 19:20 GMT
On May 31, 5:35 pm, Richard Brooks <richardbro...@vickers-
armstrongs.com> wrote:

> This should help.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/msagent/

Thanks.  What is this stuff?   What does it do?  I have quite enough
Microsoft stuff that does things I don't know about.   I have no use
for a voice-entry system.
Richard Brooks - 01 Jun 2008 22:57 GMT
mholt@ohiohills.com said the following on 01/06/2008 19:20:
> On May 31, 5:35 pm, Richard Brooks <richardbro...@vickers-
> armstrongs.com> wrote:
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> Microsoft stuff that does things I don't know about.   I have no use
> for a voice-entry system.

From your own original post.

 Explorer tells me it's a "Microsoft Agent Character File..."

Look at the first two words in the quotation marks.  First word is
Microsoft and I'm not a betting man but I'd say that going to the
Microsoft site would be a good bet.  Now, let's look at the second
word in the quotation marks.  It says 'Agent' so I'd guess that it is
some program called Agent which is produced by ...... That's right....
No, (mad laughter) not Apple!  MICROSOFT!  Microsoft.  Do you know
that Microsoft has a site?

Have you tried taking up the abacus?
TankBuilder2@yahoo.ca - 02 Jun 2008 00:10 GMT
On Jun 1, 5:57 pm, Richard Brooks <richardbro...@vickers-
armstrongs.com> wrote:
> mh...@ohiohills.com said the following on 01/06/2008 19:20:
>
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>
> Have you tried taking up the abacus?

=========================================================================

Hi.

Perhaps the op is worried about getting yet another useless piece of
memory hogging crap from Microshi*

Every single time I have downloaded some thing from Microshi*'s site I
ended up having a problem with my pc.

When this pc dies I'm getting a Mac even if I have to go to a
Community College to learn how to use it.

Cheers from Peter
Richard Brooks - 02 Jun 2008 11:26 GMT
TankBuilder2@yahoo.ca said the following on 02/06/2008 00:10:

> Hi.
>
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
>
> Cheers from Peter

I know what you mean!  Either that or strange things happen after
screw-up's  -  I mean updates.

The OP is better off looking for proper plans from some museum or
asking in the aircraft interest groups who will point him in the right
direction.  I can't think of any reason why anyone would put proper
plans into a strange file format type after companies have been using
something like Autocad for decades or for someone to make an
acceptable bitmap copy even in plain old BMP format as a large file?

Someone here might know someone who knows someone.  You know the deal
in researching these things!  ;-)

http://www.seawings.co.uk/links.htm

As to Agent...  (it's a toy)

From the Microsoft Agent product information section;

Microsoft Agent is an unprecedented technology that enables developers
to create innovative, new conversational interfaces by incorporating
interactive animated characters into their applications and Web pages.
Driven by a powerful yet simple programming model, these onscreen
personalities can gesture, move, speak (via a text-to-speech engine or
recorded audio) and even accept spoken voice commands.
Applications and Web pages enhanced with Microsoft Agent provide their
users with an interface that extends beyond the conventional screen,
mouse and keyboard interactions so prevalent today, to broaden and
humanize the interaction that they have with their computers.
Richard Brooks - 02 Jun 2008 11:39 GMT
mholt@ohiohills.com said the following on 31/05/2008 22:07:
> I have a file called MARS.  I'm not sure what the extension is because
> Explorer won't reveal it, but I think it's .AFL.   Explorer tells me
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
>
> Mike

I think the thing to do is to find someone who is using Agent and zoom
into a large extent, press [Print Screen] and save each captured image
to the Paint package and stitch the whole lot together, then ditch the
original.

I'm sure many people do this to those scrolling maps that you get on
the Internet just to get a very large printout of their own! ;-)
 
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