Re: Mailing attachments

On 5/8/05 2:22, in article
0001HW.BF1926AC0020F1E3F0284550@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Steve Hodgson"
<hamrun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Aug 2005 12:12:31 +0100, marcb wrote
> (in article <42F349AB.48FE1931@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
>
>> You might want to ensure that file names have extensions, eg .doc for Word
>> docs.
>> That solved a a problem for me mailing to one Windows user who couldn't see
>> any
>> attachments.
>
> That's something that I always wherever I can knowing just how restricted
> Windows is when it comes to file associations. As a fairly recent Mac user
> (not before OS X) I am never completely sure what it uses for file
> association (some sequence of extension and resource fork I guess). Best of
> all the OS I have tried was BeOS that used MIME throughout the OS, including
> the Tracker (analogous to finder/Explorer).

>From Tiger, Apple's starting to merge things like type/creator codes, file
extensions and MIME types into things called Uniform Type Identifiers. They
look a bit more flexible than any of the above.

More info at:

<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/understanding_ut
is/>

Cheers,

Chris

.

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