.DAT and .HTML - strange problem

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Hi

On our machine, we have a (very) confusing problem. We have IE6 and Nero installed. We also have 3rd party software which publishes its tables to .HTML format. The problem is that when it previews the table within the 3rd party software, the filename is in .HTML, but when it gets sent to Outlook Express, the attachment is in .DAT, which is a Nero file extension. The problem is not with the 3rd Party software, since incoming "HTML" attachments ALSO arrive in the inbox with .DAT extensions. This says to me that the problem is registry-based, however, I cannot seem to find anything there which would cause this. Anybody else experienced this? If so, have you managed to correct it, and HOW

Thank

- cua
 
Doesn't anyone have any idea what is causing this? Microsoft? Bill Gates?
Anyone?


Cuan P said:
Hi,

On our machine, we have a (very) confusing problem. We have IE6 and Nero
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installed. We also have 3rd party software which publishes its tables to
..HTML format. The problem is that when it previews the table within the 3rd
party software, the filename is in .HTML, but when it gets sent to Outlook
Express, the attachment is in .DAT, which is a Nero file extension. The
problem is not with the 3rd Party software, since incoming "HTML"
attachments ALSO arrive in the inbox with .DAT extensions. This says to me
that the problem is registry-based, however, I cannot seem to find anything
there which would cause this. Anybody else experienced this? If so, have
you managed to correct it, and HOW?
 
Hi David, thanks for replying...

The question here was not so much about Nero or files without an extension,
but more about why XP or OE is calling a potato a carrot. In my instance,
..DAT is associated to Nero express. I could associate it to IE, but that is
not solving the problem. Somewhere along the line, my .HTML files are being
automatically converted to .DAT files whether they get attached to emails or
whether they're being received as attachments. If I save a web page in IE,
it saves it as .HTML, however.

This would indicate a problem with OE, yes. The only problem is that these
files I'm sending & receiving have got extensions, more specifically, .HTML
extensions - so why would it change them?

- cuan


Dats aren't just nero. It a common extension. Files without an extension get
given dat extension in OE.
 
I tried experiments. I can only get dat if there is no registered file.

Type in Start Run

iexplore /reg

magic often works when logic doesn't.
 
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