22 Oct
2003
22 Oct
'03
08:50
Greetings I just got this file with a .doc extension. OpenOffice has no idea how to open it. The 'file' command yields "AppleSingle encoded Macintosh file". I did a bit of research and found there are filters that allow one to extract the word document from within it.It appears that the file is a word document that got encoded by the sender's mail program which runs on a Mac (correct me if I'm wrong). Not having the time to download/compile the filters I used strings to get the text sans formatting. My question is: Is there something I can tell the sender to do in order for me to receive the file "normally" ? In other words, as if a Windows user had sent me a word document? TIA & Cheers