Re: Can't open PC docs on the AS/400 -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Can't open PC docs on the AS/400
From: James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 11:25:24 -0600 (MDT)
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On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Lamar Thomas wrote:

> My users sometimes have problems opening PC docs that are stored on the
> AS/400. MS Word will crash when they try and open the doc or print the doc.
>
> However, if the copy that same doc to the PC everything works just fine.
> Anyone have any ideas? I was thinking it might have something to do with
> EBCDIC to ASCII translation. If so, anybody have any ideas on a solution?
> Thanks for any help.

What os are you using on the as/400 and on the clients?  It is possible
some release of os/400 has a problem.  It is more likely some release of
windows has a problem.

James Rich
james@eaerich.com

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