Re: Can't open file -- SOLVED!

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, what MAY have happened was that the sender of the
email may have inadvertently compressed the file. Some MacOS
email clients by default compress all attachments using StuffIt
-compatible compression. They may or may not add a new file
suffix to the end of the filename AND your Windows-based
email client may or may not recognize the Mac compression and
encoding. On both Mac and Windows, for the highest level of
cross-platform compatibility, it is best to use MIME-encoding
with no compression. Note that this is often not the default
of Mac email clients.

        - Dov



At 6/15/2002 01:23 PM, Anders Kjellberg wrote:
>Thanks to all who responded both on and off list, I really appreciate it. My problem was a FM-file I had received via mail. It had the FM-extension and it was created on FM 6.0 on a Mac, but for some reason I couldn't open it with FM 6 on a PC. Double klicking the file gave me an unkown file type error and trying to open it from within Frame gave me same result.
>
>The solution: the guy mailed me a new file. He didn't do anything different with either the file or the transmission, but this time it worked like a charm, no problems whatsoever when opening. I have no idea what happened to/with the first file, but somehow it must have been corrupted somewhere in cyberspace.
>
>/Anders Kjellberg


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