On or near 4/22/02 7:49 PM, Linda Bernard at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > Well, I won't belabor the issue that, yes, indeed, there is a Quark version > for pc users.
Okay, okay, I stand corrected. I've never used Quark and the only people I'd ever encountered who did were Mac users... > But something you said explained why some clients complained about receiving > 2 files, one file useable and the other garbage. I will take note of that > information! thank you! > A follow-up question: > Do your instructions for sending to Windows only users include Quark files, > i.e., any files, or just word processing files, because I asked their person > about using that encoding [Windows (MIME/Base64) encoding] and she did not > know. It applies to any files. The suggestions about adding the proper extension, either manually or having Entourage do it, is also a key; Windows is incapable of detecting the proper program for opening a file if the extension is absent (and Mac OS X prefers to have the extension as well). As for the opinion, expressed by some, that AppleDouble is preferable to the Base64 encoding for Windows, it's a matter of opinion, and mine is that, if attachments are destined exclusively for windows users, Base64 is better because it omits the confusing "second file". The Windows users I've dealt with find receiving a single file easier to deal with. The decoding of the Base64 attachment should happen automatically for your Windows users. They won't even know it was there. All attachments (except straight text) have to be encoded and decoded somehow. -- My web page: <http://home.earthlink.net/~allenwatson/> My scripts page: <http:homepage.mac.com/allenwatson> Microsoft MVP for Mac Entourage/Word--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
