A triplication puzzle
Alan Cox
I emailed my brother recently to see what would happen to a Pages '08 text document when received by a Windows XP machine (he'll never learn!).I attached two files to my email. One was my original '08 Pages file. The other was the same Exported as a Word document to my Desktop.
To our mutual surprise, he received three attachments. The file Exported as a Word document was 'perfect' and could be edited like any text document. Then, the second attachment was an 'empty' file in a Windows app called Notepad which I think is the rough equivalent of our Textedit. The third attachment was the original Pages file; when 'opened' we were faced with all sorts of icons of files and folders too numersous to bother describing. One of them did provide a 'humbnail' version of the original but you could do nothing with it ad it was so small you could scarcely read it; the others were just rubbish.
Is this to be expected and can anyone explain it?