PowerMail Engineering said:
zip tool that is part of Mac OS X (ditto
command line), which is supposed to be Windows compatible.
Hmmm, I guess this with windows compatibility warrants closer investigation.
PM 5.2.3 Swedish | OS X 10.4.5 | Powerbook G4/400Mhz | 1GB RAM | 30GB HD
Richard Hart said:
To all who have experienced recipients unable to open emailed zip files:
Are you absolutely sure you did not send that zip file using
Encoding: Binhex (Macintosh)
at the bottom of the new message window?
Yes.
It is the default. And it will stymie Windows recipients
Justin Beek said:
Please explain.
(We have a site license for ZipIt but I stopped using it.)
Well, I've zipped files directly in the Finder and sent to people using
Windows. Several were unable to open the files in question, leading to
several resends. After I started sending files zipped with
Mikael Byström wrote:
It would be nice to be able to use ZipIt from within PowerMail. I really
do feel being compatible *and* retaining the power for the user is what
it's all about.
StuffIt support will be replaced by Zip support in version 5.5 final.
PowerMail will use the zip tool that is
Mikael Byström sez:
Well, I've zipped files directly in the Finder and sent to people using
Windows. Several were unable to open the files in question, leading to
several resends. After I started sending files zipped with ZipIt I've no
complaints with unopenable files.
Interesting. I've never
Personally I've not had problems sending Finder level created archives
(zip files) to PC users.
But, I have come ac-cross the situation that when using a PC created web
application (an online photo gallery) was unable to unzip such Mac
generated archives. I do belief it has something to do with
To all who have experienced recipients unable to open emailed zip files:
Are you absolutely sure you did not send that zip file using
Encoding: Binhex (Macintosh)
at the bottom of the new message window? It is the default. And it will
stymie Windows recipients every time.
Richard Hart
Michael Lewis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on 2006-09-21 10:03 said:
get a lot of StuffIt files from people, so I'm happy with Allume
(formerly Aladdin) for a drag-drop ZIP, Stuff, Tar utility...
You mean Smith Micro Software, Inc., formerly Allume :)
And they just release Stuffit 11 today.
Sean
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