At 8:27 AM -0600 on Saturday, November 15, 2003, Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The problem occurs with attachments that have a long file name - the name >then gets truncated, and without its proper extension the file is not >recognised by my word processor. When that happens I have to open my Mail >folder, find my Attachments folder, open that, then add the appropriate >extension (eg. "doc") to the file then it will open. This annoys me also (I'm on a ML for the Unix text editor vim, and often attachments sent to the list get their names mangled by PM; sometimes it's hard trying to figure out what the original name was, which is quite important for these files). You can control-click the attachment icon in the message window and choose "Show in Finder" to keep from having to hunt for it in your attachments folder. Speaking of attachments and PM, one thing I've noticed is that, usually, text attachments have their line endings preserved by PM (DOS or Unix, for example). However, if you receive a text attachment that already has the same name as one in your attachments folder, not only is the duplicate renamed (from "something" to "something.1"), its line endings are mysteriously converted to Mac format. Emily
