You're gonna love this...
I have two PCs--one with StarOffice8 (essentially OO with some bells &
whistles) and one without.
On the PC without, using IE6, I get a "Cannot find server or DNS error." (on
the other hand, using Avant Browser (built on the IE engine, using IE's
Internet settings), I get the same thing plus a dialog box allowing me to
save with the .odt extension.
On the StarOffice PC, using IE6, (Avant not installed there) I get the same
thing, along with a dialog box asking if I want to save the file, WITH a
.zip extension.
I did save the file, and double-clicked on it. As you might expect, it
opened in WinZip, listing seven files: five were XML documents,one was a
text file called "mimetype," containing the phrase
"application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text," and the seventh was a file named
"thumbnail.png," which was in fact a graphic file which appeared to be a
thumbnail of the document as it appears in StarOffice. Renaming the zip file
to an odt file allows it
to open normally in StarOffice.
Part of the explanation, I think, is that StarOffice and Open Office use xml
in storing documents, and combine several files into one compressed library
file using a format recognized by WinZip.
HTH,
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Holsberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: When is a ZIP not a ZIP?
Tom Lominac wrote:
Yes, and ZIP files open with it by default.
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Holsberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tom Lominac wrote:
Yes, downloaded on a non-StarOffice PC, which didn't know how to open
it.
Do you have WinZIP installed?
Can we backtrack a bit?
When you, using IE, click on the link I gave you, what happens?
Thanks.
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