Serious investigations into UNIX and Windows

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:17, Kevin Lyons wrote:
> -It is almost impossible to get  outlook to stop sending attachments in
> their propreity .dat format.  Even in forced plain text mode which the
> knowledgebase says will force mime, the thing still sends in .dat.

BTW if you have to suffer this you can use ktnef which is part of kdepim to 
view it's contents.

There's also /usr/ports/converters/tnef and a bunch of other ports which can 
handle it. (Annoying but it beats running outlook :)

-- 
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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