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Date:	Thu, 12 Sep 2002 10:23:04 PST7
From:	eyeleica@lvcm.com
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: attachment question

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In , on 09/12/2002
at 09:26 AM, "Steven Levine" said:

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>In <200209121420.AJW69060@100m.mpr200-2.esr.lvcm.net>, on 09/12/02
> at 06:20 AM, eyeleica@lvcm.com said:

>>not able to read. The attachments say, " >>PriceLists.xls (462 Kb), application/vnd.ms-excel base64>-" In my
>>ignorance, I am thinking the attachment is excel based; which means it
>>comes from MS Excel format.

>Sounds more intuitive than ignorant, to me.

>>Is there any way to read it in OS/2 Warp 4?

>Yes, get an application that understands Excel documents. There are
>several. Mesa, Lotus 123 and StartOffice all can read them with varying
>success, as can several other applications.

>>When I right click the attachment for the notebook, I don't see excel as
>>one of the available types for reading.

>This makes sense, you are not going to see what you don't have installed
>and/or configured.

>>Just wondering what can be done
>>when you get an attachment that can't be viewed.

>It's up to you. There are lots of options.

>>Perhaps email the
>>sender to make attachments in pdf format?

>I'm actually surprised more vendors don't do this. That said, over 90%
>of the computers out there probably came with software capable of reading
>some version of an Excel spreadsheet, so it's not all that surprising
>that a vendor would not think before sending out something in Excel
>format. Also, unfortunately, the pdf format is not as universal a
>standard as it used to be. There are at least 3 version out there and
>older readers can't understand the newer versions.

>Steven

Steven, is this what they call built-in obsolesence? Some might call it
progress, that is, "New and Improved." Thanks for the direction.

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