RE: [WinMac] Mac attachment via AOL to PCs

Subject: RE: [WinMac] Mac attachment via AOL to PCs
From: Tom Roth (tomroth[at]wfubmc.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 19 2002 - 12:19:04 EST

It's probably not the file format but the encoding scheme being used to convert the binary file to ascii and back again. The PC AOL is not recognizing the encoding used by the Mac. If you email has different encoding options for attached files available, try MIME or UUEncode as that's common for most PC email programs. AOL? Who knows? Most Mac email programs use BinHex but on the other end it's just garbled. If the receiver can save the file he or she might be able to use the Windows version of Aladdin's Expander to decode the file.

Hope this helps.

PS: I've just been force to switch to Outlook/Exchange at work so if this message is formatted weird, that's why.ÿ

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 Tom Roth * tomroth@wfubmc.edu * tel 336.716.4493
 Wake Forest University School of Medicine
 Dept of Biomedical Communications
 Medical Center Blvd * Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1011
 http://www.wfubmc.edu/biomed/

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> From: Jeff Wechter
> Reply To: winmac@iffy.com
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 10:43 AM
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> Subject: [WinMac] Mac attachment via AOL to PCs
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> Has anyone had success sending Word (Office 98 version) attachments to Windows users via AOL? AOL5 (last build probably), Beige G3 MT with OS8.6.
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> I have neither AOL nor Word, so the tests we've run are a little time-consuming. We've tried saving as RTF and also *95* compatible in Word's Save As options.
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> The files get mangled, with massive headers and footers appearing on the received document.
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> Compression is not an option. I'm aware of the underlying issues of e-mail, and the fact that many to most people never get this to work reliably. I'm just wondering if anyone has a succesful recipe.
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> Jeff
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