Re: [WinMac] unreadable email attachments in GroupWise

From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr[at]lazerware.com)
Date: Mon Jun 26 2000 - 12:02:39 PDT

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    At 12:51 PM -0500 6/26/00, Jeff Johnson wrote:
    >In our mixed-platform environment (Macs and PC), we use the latest version
    >of GroupWise for email. We have a problem when a Mac user sends a PC user an
    >attachment (and vice versa). Sometimes, the attachment is unreadable.

            You are using GroupWise on both Mac and PC - and the two
    don't talk to each other properly?!? Sounds like well written
    software - NOT!.

    >How are messages encoded in GroupWise?

            You should be able to tell my looking at the data - feel free
    to stuff/zip up a copy of one of the files, and I'll look at it for
    you.

    >I know that there are solutions like WinZip
    >http://www.winzip.com/whatsnew80.htm
    >or Conversions Plus from DataViz
    >http://www.dataviz.com/products/conversionsplus/index.html
    >that will convert the unreadable files to a readable format but I'd like to
    >also know how to solve the problem without resorting to third-party
    >software.
    >
            For that matter, there is always StuffIt Expander for
    Windows, which is FREE and will do all that for you.

    Leonard 

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