Re: [WinMac] Adding Extensions to Mac Files


Changhsu Liu(cpl874[at]optimum.com)
Fri, 11 Dec 1998 13:40:56 -0500


Do you have MacDrive 98 installed? It has Extension maps tab that you can
turn on "Append extensions when lsiting Mac File Names"
Turn it off, then files on Mac Disk won't add extensions.

>We are using an Intergraph Extreme Z machine for email running Windows for
>NT. We are running Outlook Xpress as our email program. We take the files
>our customers send and transfer them to our Mac. When we receive files from
>a customer's Mac the program is adding an .hqx extension to the files. When
>we try to open the files on our Mac it thinks they are compressed files and
>tries to launch Stuffit Expander. Does anyone have any idea of a setting
>that is causing this? If the files are sent as compressed files the Mac can
>open them OK.

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