Hello Thomas, On Friday, August 5, 2005 at 11:39:51 PM Thomas [TF] wrote:
PP>> Further investigation should show a significant number of them has not PP>> misconfigured Entourage, but in fact have *no* extensions at their PP>> files, because Apple users don't need them. Apple stores (I know at PP>> least for versions <= 9 for sure) the program necessary to open the PP>> file as meta-data, so an assignment using file extension ain't PP>> necessary. TF> This is correct (of course), but the Apple users I am talking about TF> send their files to Windows users, for example myself. Being crippled TF> by this OS, I do need the extension. I know. I just wanted to point out it's not always a misconfigured MUA, especially when Apple comes into play. You only have to chances: tell them to *please* use Windows-known extensions when communicating with Windows users (i.e. rename the file ending with '.doc' when it's a Word document, and '.xls' when it is an Excel Sheet), or if they are to [silly|lazy|stubborn] to do this you'll have to have a look at message source to figure out the content type yourself :-/ Sadly that's reality, and I call it luck these Apple MUAs at least set the content type correctly. Imagine all the files being sent as "application/octet-stream" ... You'd *never* know what you got ;-) -- Regards Peter Palmreuther (The Bat! v3.51.10 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2) Boob's Law: You always find something in the last place you look. ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.51.10 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
