Re: [Pan-users] Attachments - RESOLVED

[Tim Kynerd]

Donald D Henson wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 11:29, Tim Kynerd wrote:
>
> > Donald D Henson wrote:
> >
> > > How do I read an attachment on an incoming post? I see where you go to
> > > "save attachment" and the attachment actually gets saved there. But when
> > > I go to open the attachment, the mime type is not recognized. Am I
> > > missing something?
> > >
> > > Don Henson
> >
> > What environment are you working in (i.e., what operating system)?
> >
> > How are you trying to open the attachment? Are you trying to open it 
> > from within Pan, or using some other command outside Pan?
>
>
> I'm running PAN under SuSE Linux 9.1. However, the problem has been
> resolved. Turns out that the file being sent to me, supposedly an MS
> Word .doc file, was in fact a .dat file. As I recall from my MS Windows
> days, that's probably a shortcut to the actual file. Once I got the
> sender to attach the correct file, everything worked. Thanks for the
> fast response, though.
>
> Don Henson

No problem, glad you got it worked out.

I'm also running Pan under SuSE Linux 9.1. Great, ain't it? ;-)

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