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Re: Apple OS9 system not recognising email files sent from Windows98

Subject: Re: Apple OS9 system not recognising email files sent from Windows98
From: dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 23:57:03 +1200
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Mike Pfaiffer <mike@digitalcivilization.ca> wrote:

> NJS wrote:
> > Can any Apple or Windows user tell me why when I send email
> > attachments from my Windows 98 machine (using outlook)to an Apple OS9
> > the file sometimes appears as "winmail.dat" and cannot be opened.  Is
> > there a fix?
> 
>       As others have pointed out, Apple never made a product called OS9.
> However they did make an operating system for the Macintosh called 
> "System 9".

No they didn't.  It is called "Mac OS 9".  (They started using "Mac OS"
instead of "System" as of version 7.6.)

Further to another poster's comment about the operating system for the
6809: it was "OS/9" (not "OS9") if I remember right.

-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz

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