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This is probably a simple question, but I don't know how to do this. I am
trying to do the newsletter (pro bono) for my daughter's school. The person
who has been doing it, sent me a template. But I can't figure out how to
open it. He is using Windows, I am using a Mac. And I download everything
to my desktop through Outlook Express. when i double-click on the file, i
get the msg that it can't be opened because the application program that
created it can't be found.
What do I use to open it?
Below are the comments he forwarded to me.
> Kari,
>
> If you're using Netscape for email, it should automatically translate
> the stuff for you. Other email routes, such as forwarding to other
> accounts, Outlook, Eudora and PINE, leave the files in a MIME compressed
> format. Something that uncompresses the MIME format should work. There
> are about 100 or so programs that do that for Windows, but I don't know
> which ones do it for the MAC.
>
