[18929] in Athena Bugs
Re: What do I do with this?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abby Fox)
Wed Apr 25 12:47:39 2001
Message-Id: <200104251646.MAA21742@whirlwind.mit.edu>
To: kirtley@MIT.EDU
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 12:46:56 -0400
From: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
>So I tried to use mhstore and open this file with Frame Maker. I
>suspect it is a WORD document (will confirm with the sender). Frame
>asks how to filter it, and suggests something. If I take the
>suggestion, it just hange. If I tell it to use the word filter it
>barfs.
>?
>Jim Kirtley
Hi, Jim.
You may not have been aware of this but bug reports go to a public
discuss archive; I've deleted your original message as it included an
attachment which looks like it should not be public. (In general, this
sort of question may be more appropriate for OLC, or if you think it
merits a bug report I'd suggest citing any error messages without
attaching the file itself -- the person following up can get it from you
personally.)
In this case, it looks like you have a FileMaker Pro document. Note
that if you use "mhstore -auto" it will try to save any attachments with
their original names, which may give you a clue to file type. (In this
case the filename included the extension .FP3; you could also see this
in the Content-type field.)
Your best bet is probably to read it on a PC or Mac if you have
FileMaker Pro, or ask the sender if they can export it as text. (On
Athena, the spreadsheet program xess can import tab-delimited text, if
you want to manipulate the data yourself rather than just read it.)
There's an FAQ with some examples of how to deal with attachments
manually, which may help in future:
http://web.mit.edu/acs/faq/mailfaq.html#extract
--Abby
