Dev file?

I DLed a copy of my cell phone manual and it is a 'dev' file. What program
is used to print it? I tried Foxit but it didn't recognixe the format. I
tried an old Adobe but that was a disaster. I froze my system so I had to
reboot and caused modem problems.

TIA


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|I DLed a copy of my cell phone manual and it is a 'dev' file. What program
| is used to print it?

Presumably it's not a Windows phone, so why ask
here? We don't know what system the file is for or
anything about the byte IDs in the file. Do a search
for .dev file extension. Or maybe go back and try to
find a Windows version of the manual.

On 30 Jun 2015 13:37:14 GMT, KenK wrote in


I DLed a copy of my cell phone manual and it is a 'dev' file. What program
is used to print it? I tried Foxit but it didn't recognixe the format. I
tried an old Adobe but that was a disaster. I froze my system so I had to
reboot and caused modem problems.

TIA

http://fileinfo.com/extension/dev

but I don't think that describes what you have. Are you sure you got
the right file?
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KenK wrote:
I DLed a copy of my cell phone manual and it is a 'dev' file. What program
is used to print it? I tried Foxit but it didn't recognixe the format. I
tried an old Adobe but that was a disaster. I froze my system so I had to
reboot and caused modem problems.

TIA

Sounds like a proprietary type. I'd suggest going back to the site and
seeing what it says about it (it should give at least some info on it). Was
this from the manufacturer's site, or some other site claiming to have such
manuals?

On 30/06/2015 14:37, KenK wrote:
I DLed a copy of my cell phone manual and it is a 'dev' file. What program
is used to print it? I tried Foxit but it didn't recognixe the format. I
tried an old Adobe but that was a disaster. I froze my system so I had to
reboot and caused modem problems.

TIA




Have you tried opening the file in Wordpad or Notepad? If not do so now
and see what are its first three characters as it might give you a
clue. sometimes it is necessary to change the file extension of the
downloaded file so I suggest change it to pdf (from dev) and then double
click on the file to see if it opens correctly.

Most product manuals are in pdf format (or just plain text files if the
product is some cheap quality).

Good luck.

CRNG wrote in
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On 30 Jun 2015 13:37:14 GMT, KenK wrote in


I DLed a copy of my cell phone manual and it is a 'dev' file. What
program is used to print it? I tried Foxit but it didn't recognixe the
format. I tried an old Adobe but that was a disaster. I froze my
system so I had to reboot and caused modem problems.

TIA

http://fileinfo.com/extension/dev

but I don't think that describes what you have. Are you sure you got
the right file?

No. I spent hours looking for a PDF file with no success. Sites said they
had them but the DL failed to work, I was on dial-up (DSL down) and the
files were 1 Mb+ and that didn't help.


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"Bill in Co" wrote in
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KenK wrote:
I DLed a copy of my cell phone manual and it is a 'dev' file. What
program is used to print it? I tried Foxit but it didn't recognixe
the format. I tried an old Adobe but that was a disaster. I froze my
system so I had to reboot and caused modem problems.

TIA

Sounds like a proprietary type. I'd suggest going back to the site
and seeing what it says about it (it should give at least some info on
it). Was this from the manufacturer's site, or some other site
claiming to have such manuals?



Can't recall the site. I looked at dozens trying to find a PDF file.

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On 30 Jun 2015 17:38:10 GMT, KenK wrote in


CRNG wrote in
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On 30 Jun 2015 13:37:14 GMT, KenK wrote in


I DLed a copy of my cell phone manual and it is a 'dev' file. What
program is used to print it? I tried Foxit but it didn't recognixe the
format. I tried an old Adobe but that was a disaster. I froze my
system so I had to reboot and caused modem problems.

TIA

http://fileinfo.com/extension/dev

but I don't think that describes what you have. Are you sure you got
the right file?

No. I spent hours looking for a PDF file with no success. Sites said they
had them but the DL failed to work, I was on dial-up (DSL down) and the
files were 1 Mb+ and that didn't help.

Can you post the make and model number of your phone? Maybe I or
someone can find it and post it on a download site and send you the
link.
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CRNG wrote in
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On 30 Jun 2015 17:38:10 GMT, KenK wrote in


CRNG wrote in
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On 30 Jun 2015 13:37:14 GMT, KenK wrote in


I DLed a copy of my cell phone manual and it is a 'dev' file. What
program is used to print it? I tried Foxit but it didn't recognixe
the format. I tried an old Adobe but that was a disaster. I froze my
system so I had to reboot and caused modem problems.

TIA

http://fileinfo.com/extension/dev

but I don't think that describes what you have. Are you sure you
got the right file?

No. I spent hours looking for a PDF file with no success. Sites said
they had them but the DL failed to work, I was on dial-up (DSL down)
and the files were 1 Mb+ and that didn't help.

Can you post the make and model number of your phone? Maybe I or
someone can find it and post it on a download site and send you the
link.

Thanks

LG LG440G

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KenK wrote:
CRNG wrote in
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On 30 Jun 2015 17:38:10 GMT, KenK wrote in


CRNG wrote in
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On 30 Jun 2015 13:37:14 GMT, KenK wrote in


I DLed a copy of my cell phone manual and it is a 'dev' file. What
program is used to print it? I tried Foxit but it didn't recognixe
the format. I tried an old Adobe but that was a disaster. I froze my
system so I had to reboot and caused modem problems.

TIA
http://fileinfo.com/extension/dev

but I don't think that describes what you have. Are you sure you
got the right file?
No. I spent hours looking for a PDF file with no success. Sites said
they had them but the DL failed to work, I was on dial-up (DSL down)
and the files were 1 Mb+ and that didn't help.
Can you post the make and model number of your phone? Maybe I or
someone can find it and post it on a download site and send you the
link.

Thanks

LG LG440G


http://www.lg.com/us/support-mobile/lg-LG440G

http://www.lg.com/lgecs.downloadFile....pdf&TC=DwnCmd

That one is a PDF file. (Acrobat Reader)

LG_440G_TRF_UG_Print_V1.2_130117.pdf 1,570,311 bytes 122 pages

*******

A reference to "dev", might be a manual for Android Devs
or Android Developers. But it's still likely to have
a file extension of PDF.

Paul

On 30 Jun 2015, KenK wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

I DLed a copy of my cell phone manual and it is a 'dev' file. What
program is used to print it? I tried Foxit but it didn't recognixe
the format. I tried an old Adobe but that was a disaster. I froze
my system so I had to reboot and caused modem problems.

Try adding a .pdf extention to the file and try opening it again.

KenK wrote:

I DLed a copy of my cell phone manual and it is a 'dev' file. What
program is used to print it? I tried Foxit but it didn't recognixe
the format. I tried an old Adobe but that was a disaster. I froze my
system so I had to reboot and caused modem problems.

http://filext.com/alphalist.php?extstart=%5ED

Several choices but the programming, driver, and audio filetypes are
probably not appropriate. My guess is the LaTeX and Device Independent
TeX filetypes are appropriate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX

So LaTeX has its own format scheme for documents created with it.
However, it is a text file that simply using markup tags to identify
what formatting or style to use on the delimited text string, similar to
how XML works with its markup tags. I thought LaTeX output .tex files
but the above site mentions it also does .dev files.

Have you tried opening it in NotePad to see if it is a text file?
If LaTeX formatted, it is plain text but it could look messy if the
author used a ton of markup tags.

Another trick is to open in a hex editor (read-only mode) and look at
the first 100 bytes to see if there are strings that identify what
program created the file. Sometimes I've had to go to the end and
scroll up looking for blocks of data (strings) to see if I can tell what
program created or last edited the file. SysInternals also has a
strings.exe utility that will dump out all strings it finds in a file,
so I'd run something like "strings tempfile & notepad.exe tempfile"
(pipe stdout from strings into a file and then open that file in
NotePad).

You sure you downloaded the user manual and not some code file? The
..dev filetype is also used with Microsoft C++ programming (Visual
Studio). You might've gotten a programming project file and that will
use Microsoft's proprietary file formatting to convey all the info about
the project. No one knows what you downloaded because you didn't give a
URL to the page from which you retrieved the .dev file.

KenK wrote:

Bill in Co wrote:

KenK wrote:

I DLed a copy of my cell phone manual and it is a 'dev' file. What
program is used to print it? I tried Foxit but it didn't recognixe
the format. I tried an old Adobe but that was a disaster. I froze
my system so I had to reboot and caused modem problems.

Sounds like a proprietary type. I'd suggest going back to the site
and seeing what it says about it (it should give at least some info
on it). Was this from the manufacturer's site, or some other site
claiming to have such manuals?

Can't recall the site. I looked at dozens trying to find a PDF file.

In a reply to CRNG, you said you have the the LG LG440G cell phone. I
did a Bing search on "LG LG440G". I didn't have to look at dozens of
results. The 2nd hit (1st one after one sponsored ad - I never click on
those) was:

http://www.lg.com/us/support-mobile/lg-LG440G

Both the English and Spanish manual downloads are .pdf files. So from
the unidentified site, it looks like you retrieved a driver .dev file
(that was unrolled out of the installer file since the USB driver
download from LG is an .exe installer file).

On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 14:47:15 -0400, Paul wrote in


KenK wrote:
CRNG wrote in
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On 30 Jun 2015 17:38:10 GMT, KenK wrote in


CRNG wrote in
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On 30 Jun 2015 13:37:14 GMT, KenK wrote in


I DLed a copy of my cell phone manual and it is a 'dev' file. What
program is used to print it? I tried Foxit but it didn't recognixe
the format. I tried an old Adobe but that was a disaster. I froze my
system so I had to reboot and caused modem problems.

TIA
http://fileinfo.com/extension/dev

but I don't think that describes what you have. Are you sure you
got the right file?
No. I spent hours looking for a PDF file with no success. Sites said
they had them but the DL failed to work, I was on dial-up (DSL down)
and the files were 1 Mb+ and that didn't help.
Can you post the make and model number of your phone? Maybe I or
someone can find it and post it on a download site and send you the
link.

Thanks

LG LG440G


http://www.lg.com/us/support-mobile/lg-LG440G

http://www.lg.com/lgecs.downloadFile....pdf&TC=DwnCmd

That one is a PDF file. (Acrobat Reader)

LG_440G_TRF_UG_Print_V1.2_130117.pdf 1,570,311 bytes 122 pages

I was able to down load the above. Can you get it KenK?

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VanguardLH wrote in :

Have you tried opening it in NotePad to see if it is a text file?


Yes, it's mot.


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