PC users receive my email attachments as .dat files...

....and CANNOT open them.
I've done a cursory search on this board to find a fix for this problem, but cannot.
Any assistance I might receive in fixing this issue would be great.
Cheers,
Joel DuBay
www.readyacoustics.com

Joel,
In addition to Allan's very appropriate question, see those I asked of Charles in the topic at:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=3386412#3386412
Ernie

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