Subject: Help :Reading attached Word document

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 01:49:59 +0530

Pl. tell why my Word program cannot open a Word Document which I have
received from a friend who sent it as an attachment using his shell
account.

His email to me which had the document as an attachment, I saved to my
home directory on the server and then transferred to my computer using
Kermit and also tried it with the sz -be filename zmodem protocol.

When I try to open the file my Word program says " Cannot open
Document".

Where am I going wrong?

Pl. help me.

Tushar
[email-masked]

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From: Robin S Socha <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 22:35:32 +0100 (CET)

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On Wed, 19 Mar 1997 [email-masked] wrote:

  >account. His email to me which had the document as an attachment, I saved
  >to my home directory on the server and then transferred to my computer
  >using Kermit and also tried it with the sz -be filename zmodem protocol.
  >When I try to open the file my Word program says " Cannot open Document".

Quite a few options here... Since word is a *very* advanced program, well
renowned for its user-friendliness and downward-combatibility, you may need
to upgrade to an even more sophisticated version of word. Check with your
friend which version he's using. Did I say "use"? *argl*

Other options include not using ftp,  not setting ftp to binary mode,
transmission errors and use of Microsoftware. Check with your help-desk.

Cheers,
Robin

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Robin S. Socha,
Political Science Dept., Bonn University, Bonn

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