Re: Mac files on Windows and web
Re: Mac files on Windows and web
- Subject: Re: Mac files on Windows and web
- From: Arthur J Knapp <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 09:25:08 -0500
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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:35:45 -0800
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Subject: Mac files on Windows and web
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From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
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But I did this (as a more complicate CSV file instead of a simpler
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conversion to a Windows Tab-Delimited Text file, which Outlook could also
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import) partly to be able to import it, from a Mac, into the Hotmail online
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website Calendar. This requires a Comma Separated Values (Windows) file
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exported from Outlook Windows. But it won't accept this CSV file that
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Outlook Windows itself accepts. I'm presuming that Windows, the OS, has
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built-in converters or signals to tell it what to do with a Mac file,
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whereas the Hotmail website probably has no such thing and is noticing
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something "wrong" about the file without even trying to open it. I have
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tried giving it a "ttxt" creator instead of "XCEL", but that doesn't help.
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Its file type is "TEXT", as it should be. It absolutely needs the ".csv"
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extension, according to the website, so I haven't changed that.
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Perhaps I just need to strip out the resource fork? I've never done this
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before. I think that the Satimage osax can do this, and it exists in both OS
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9 and OS X versions.
This is interesting Paul. We once had a project where we needed to upload
various files, including gifs, to a CGI-based web application. Sometimes
things went smoothly, and at other times, it appeared that the gif files
were getting corrupted. What we eventually were able to figure out was that
one of the browsers, (Netscape or Explorer, I don't remember which), was
only uploading the data-fork, whereas the other browser was uploading both
forks, and thereby confusing the CGI. At least, that was the working thoery
that we used to fix the problem. It may simply have been that one of the
browsers knew how to deal with the resource fork while the other did not,
etc.
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