Mac files on Windows and web
Mac files on Windows and web
- Subject: Mac files on Windows and web
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:35:45 -0800
Has anyone had experience with this sort of thing?
I have converted a text file which exported various properties of
Entourage's calendar events as a tab-delimited text file into a
comma-separated-values text file, complete with all the correct formatting
and CRLF line endings, that Outlook (200) on Windows can understand. Since
.CSV files seem to carry Excel creator code, I gave it that too. Outlook on
Windows accepts it completely and imports it as a Comma Separated Values
(Windows) file into the calendar there. Fine.
But I did this (as a more complicate CSV file instead of a simpler
conversion to a Windows Tab-Delimited Text file, which Outlook could also
import) partly to be able to import it, from a Mac, into the Hotmail online
website Calendar. This requires a Comma Separated Values (Windows) file
exported from Outlook Windows. But it won't accept this CSV file that
Outlook Windows itself accepts. I'm presuming that Windows, the OS, has
built-in converters or signals to tell it what to do with a Mac file,
whereas the Hotmail website probably has no such thing and is noticing
something "wrong" about the file without even trying to open it. I have
tried giving it a "ttxt" creator instead of "XCEL", but that doesn't help.
Its file type is "TEXT", as it should be. It absolutely needs the ".csv"
extension, according to the website, so I haven't changed that.
Perhaps I just need to strip out the resource fork? I've never done this
before. I think that the Satimage osax can do this, and it exists in both OS
9 and OS X versions. I need to be able to do this in both OS 9 and X. So
that would be the way to go, if someone can guide me here. Or is there
something else (simpler?) I could try, to fool the Hotmail website into
thinking that this is a Windows file and not a Mac one?
Any ideas?
--
Paul Berkowitz
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