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Date:	Thu, 12 Sep 2002 09:26:26 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: attachment question

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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

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