opening outlook vcard

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az

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: pop

A friend who is using Outlook on a PC has e-mailed me a few contacts but i can't open them in Entourage. Everytime i open them it opens as if it is an e-mail and all i see is the name of the file.

Any idea how i can open these contacts?
 
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Barry Wainwright

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: pop

A friend who is using Outlook on a PC has e-mailed me a few contacts but i can't open them in Entourage. Everytime i open them it opens as if it is an e-mail and all i see is the name of the file.

Any idea how i can open these contacts?
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open them in a text editor and re-save with mac line endings.

Textwrangler (from barebones software - of BBEdit fame) is a free and
highly capable text editor.
 
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Newbie

Hi Barry

what exactly are mac line endings?

Barry Wainwright said:
open them in a text editor and re-save with mac line endings.

Textwrangler (from barebones software - of BBEdit fame) is a free and
highly capable text editor.
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Barry Wainwright

Newbie said:
Hi Barry

what exactly are mac line endings?
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the mac saves text files with a simple Carriage return (ASCII Character
13) between lines.

Unix saves text files with a Line Feed (ASCII Character 10) between lines

Windows saves text files with both of these characters between lines.

(this is a simplification)

Most text handling rules on all platforms work around these issues, but
occasionally you find something that doesn't like the different
paragraph separators.
 
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