Re: [ANN] "Dbl-Click Won't Open..." Issues

Steve Maser <maser@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

        Hi Steve :-)

> But from what I can read through these threads, there are a number of
> different mail programs -- and web browsers? -- causing these problems.


Not all of them. I'm using OmniWeb and I don't see this.
I don;t see it either with Mail or Entourage. It really seems to be
related to what application has been used to download the file and how
it has been post-processed (I remember a similar issue a while ago under
MacOS 8 with apps messing up resource forks).

> Why should Safari (for example) append a <.dot> extension on a
> downloaded .doc file -- only after Office 2008 is installed.  It's
> never a question of this happening until Office 2008 enters the
> picture.  Are you implying that *Safari* is inappropriately mangling
> files and that the MacBU "knows better" than Apple in this instance?

Safari adds extensions to files which do not have one according to what
it believe is right. Apparently, Safari now believes that .doc files
have no extension but still maps them to Office and therefore adds the
..dot extension (why .dot and not .doc.... I have no clue). To me it
looks like Safari gets somethign wrong. Office might be partially faulty
too and indicate to Safari that the .dot extension is the appropriate
one though. Again, I don't see this with other browsers.

Corentin

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