296977 - Attachments from Apple Classic (OS 9.2) are unreadable

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[B. Morton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.0 (20041206)

Cannot open or import attached files made with Apple classic apps, eg Canvas,
Statview. Must use "Mail" or Netscape 4.5. to send and download. This problem
began after Netscape 4.5.

Statview is still widely used academically and other classic apps are still
preferrable. Thanks

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create Statview dataset
2. attach to e-mail, send
3. save or open (all methods)
4. open - double-click or open from within app

Actual Results:  
File not recognized

Expected Results:  
file should open

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

You mean you send such a file with Thunderbird and you can't open it in
Thunderbird or other mail Client but it works if you send it with example
Netscape and open it with thunderbird ?

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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