Posted by Chris Beall on 12/08/05 18:19

Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

> 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.

leo,

I think you've hit on it. I've forwarded the info and will post back
when I get a response.

Thanks,
Chris Beall

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