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outlook on system 7 and image attachments

agent_js03

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I made a post about this earlier... I had thought this had to do with copying files from pc formatted disk, but it turns out it has nothing to do with that.

Basically I want to be able to send pictures over email. I have outlook express on Macintosh System 7.6. When I attach the picture and send the email, I receive it on the other side as an unreadable file. On my phone it says the resolution is -1x-1. If I send an email with picture attachment from my modern PC to outlook on the mac, the image shows up fine. When I sent the exact same image back to the PC, it gets corrupted again somehow.

I am wondering what could be going wrong. I remember something about macintosh using some kind of data/resource fork or some jazz like that, but I am not familiar enough with the science behind older macs to know what that is all about. Maybe there is some header that is being appended, and the pc didn't know what to do with that header. Does anyone have any idea what might be wrong?

 

IPalindromeI

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Image formats should be data fork only; it shouldn't be applying any Macintosh pickling unless the format needed it.

 
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