Subject: Re: not exactly linux ...
From: Jim Gribbin (jewelrysupplier@gci.net)
Date: Fri Apr 11 2003 - 17:23:29 AKDT
How did that happen? Email without a return address.
I need to get it detached from the email first.
Strange thing is, he forwarded it to me and I could access it fine on
Linux w/gnumeric.
Jim Gribbin
On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 16:31, an unknown sender wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 12:01:55PM -0800, Jim Gribbin wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to help a friend on Mac OSX open an Excel document sent as an
> > email attachment. Every time he tries to open it, he gets an error
> > stating that corel draw converter has a problem with the file. I don't
> > know what corel draw has to do with the situation. I believe the mime
> > type is set properly as when I open an Excel document elsewhere on the
> > box, it automatically uses Excel to open it. I also can find no way to
> > save the attachment or otherwise extract it from the email. It appears
> > to be using the stock Mail 1.1.
>
> The it sounds like the Excel document wound up with the wrong creator.
> One way to fix the problem is open the file with Resedit and change
> the creator to the one for Excel.
>
> If this looks like it's doable I'll look for the the excel creator.
>
> Douglas
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