Thanks Charles:
Yes. You are using very old Word 6 PC codes. That means the content is
expected to be non-Unicode with none of the modern structures in the file
(the old-fa****oned RTF tables, WMF 8-bit graphics, etc...)
I wonder if you would have been better to leave the Type and Creator codes
blank? If the extension is correct, Word will sort it out from there :-)
Word writes the "real" data type into each file on save. It's in the file
header: in the final 500 bytes of the file. I believe that Word always
ignores the Mac file type and creator code.
Cheers
On 24/06/08 10:35 PM, in article
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"charles@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <charles@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> re: Although identity of the software hasn't been identified, MacBU is
> working
> with the developers to resolve the situation
>
> Hi All - I just wanted to post our (Group Logic/ExtremeZ-IP) findings
>
> We found the problem opening files by double clicking in Office 2008
> SP1 is related to default type/creator information given to files with
> no_existing_type_creator info. When such a file is encountered (blank
> type/creator) both Services for Macintosh and ExtremeZ-IP will provide
> the default codes associated with .doc files. It seems as though
> Office 2008 SP1 depricated the type/creator codes we have historically
> associated with DOC and XLS files.
>
> Currently, ExtremeZ-IP and Services for Macintosh use the following
> values to map DOC and XLS files with blank type/creator codes:
> Word: TYPE=WDBN, CREATOR= MSWD
> Excel: TYPE=XLBN, CREATOR= XCEL
>
> Office 2008 SP1 now requires:
> Word: TYPE=W8BN, CREATOR= MSWD
> Excel: TYPE=XLS8, CREATOR= XCEL
>
> ExtremeZ-IP users can simply update the type/creator database (see
> KB):
>
http://www.grouplogic.com/knowledge/index.cfm/fuseaction/view_Fix/docID/317
> We will also provide the updated type/creator mappings in our next
> release.
>
> For Services For Macintosh Users you can edit the relevant registry
> keys:
> http://sup****t.microsoft.com/kb/102996
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services \MacFile
> \Parameters\Type_Creators\
>
> Regards,
> Charles Kim - ExtremeZ-IP sup****t
> charles@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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