Posted by Leonard Blaisdell on 12/08/05 05:24

In article <nvNlf.140$iv.40@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com>,
Chris Beall <Chris_Beall@prodigy.net> wrote:

> The file has been given an .html extension.
> She has tried dragging the file and dropping it on Safari.
> She has tried opening Safari and then doing a File, Open on the source file.
> She has tried opening the file with IE:
> - If the file was created with Appleworks, IE displays the source.
> - If the file was created with Textedit, IE says it doesn't know how
> to open that kind of file.

I believe, but could be wrong, that Textedit saves as RTF by default. No
idea why. I have no idea what the default for Appleworks is, but I doubt
it's text. Have her make sure she doesn't do a 'Save' but does do a
'Save As' on her file, and saves as text.

> Anybody know what the missing link is?

We'll see. It shouldn't be this tough.

leo

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