A student has sent me a paper as an email attachment. It's an MSWord document -- which should be fine, since OOo and AbiWord and KWord all open MS docs -- but it comes from a Mac, I'm assuming a pre-osX mac. Mutt tells me it's of type: application/x-macbinary anyway, I can open the file in OpenOffice, but it's a total mess -- control characters everywhere, illegible garbage top and bottom, no footnotes. In fact, it reminds me of the days (pre-enlightenment) when I used to have trouble moving files between my aged mac and work's evil Windoze machines.
sooo... I assume the problem is related to endian-issues, or non-standard ascii coding, or something; but also that the problem should be solvable. Is there, then, a general strategy for dealing with these icky MacOS files? Help appreciated! Thanks, Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
