Re: Adding Extensions to Mac Files
Beth Ernst(bernst[at]fastlinepub.com)
Tue, 15 Dec 1998 08:59:22 -0400
> On the mac, look at your PC Exchange control panel. This maps DOS/WIN
> extensions to macintosh applications.
> .hqx is the extension for binhex, so Stuffit Expander is the correct mac
> program to run. If you need to split the .hqx extension from the Stuffit
> application, turn off PC Exchange and see if that works.
>"This maps DOS/WIN extensions to macintosh applications." True, but PC
>Exchange never adds an extension (three characters plus a dot) to a file name.
>Therefore, the extension name must already exsist before PC Exchange will do
>anything to the file, i.e. map it to a Mac application.
Judging from the responses I received on this, I don't think I made myself
clear on what was going on. The file was originally created and sent,
uncompressed, on a Mac. The machine receiving
the email is the Intergraph running Windows NT. When the file is dowloaded
on the NT machine it is adding the .hqx extension. If we check properties on
the file after downloading it, it shows the .hqx extension. We are not even
to the point where PC exchange would play a part, unless it has something to
do with PC exchange on the mac sending the file? I am assuming there is
something on the NT machine that is telling it to add this extension but I
don't know what. We are using PC MacLan could this have any bearing on it?
Or is it some setting in Outlook Express? I'm so confused:(
Happy Holidays!
Beth Ernst
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