From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Jul 6 7:40:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from glitch.crosswinds.net (glitch.crosswinds.net [209.208.163.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB26537C3B9 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 07:40:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oilman@crosswinds.net) Received: from francis.crosswinds.net (home-dhcp3-146.Colorado.EDU [198.11.17.146]) by glitch.crosswinds.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA92551 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 10:40:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from oilman@crosswinds.net) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000706070345.00a994b0@pop.crosswinds.net> X-Sender: oilman@pop.crosswinds.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 07:10:26 -0600 To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG From: Daniel Beauregard Subject: Re: Again Wordperfect.. In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 10:16 AM 7/6/00 +0200, Heiko Recktenwald wrote: >And another question, Windowsbashing: somebody sent me something from >Westlaw, some of his articles, three files, but it arrived as one big >"winmail.dat". What is this ? A progress in computer technology or the >contrary ? Rethorical question. Anyway, any way to decipher this ? >It was difficult enough to transfer those articles, so I dont want to >bother this windows person in California with this. I've gotten this kind of attachment from users who use Micro$oft Outlook. I have no idea how to decipher it, nor to I know when it occurs and when it does not. In any case, it's extremely annoying and demonstrates the complete disregard Micro$oft has for keeping established standards intact. oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo "For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons, and we were all given to drink of one Spirit." - 1 Corinthians 12:13 Dan Beauregard Alumnae, University of Colorado - Boulder Electrical Engineer Kappa Kappa Psi - Alpha Iota oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message