[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

depends on your platform, traffic levels and budget, really – the open source db solutions are mysql and postgresql. you can also use oracle, mssql or (shudder) access if need be (the latter two only on windows, naturally)…

if you’re on a budget, mysql is a spiffy solution – never used this, but these people seem to be offering a convertor from lotus to mysql:

https://www.soft32.com/download_74940.html

in general, if you want to give mysql a try, then i’d recommend googling up some keywords like lotus, mysql and convert to get other options – the mysql world has a lot of people who write a lot of tools…

hope that helps!

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

not by default, but you could try something like this:

https://www.securemac.com/ppf.php

although don’t consider this link an endorsement of this specific applescript – never used it before…

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

you can print a 72dpi image ok – but if you want them to have a nicer high quality image then you should look in the 200-300 dpi range…

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

you need to send an html-formatted email. i don’t know what scripting language you’d be using, but they all can do it – you just set the content type to text/html and then put html content in your email…

if you want to do html mailings, you might want to try a free cgi mailer such as subscribeme lite – https://www.siteinteractive.com/subscribe/

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

i don’t think you need to worry about formatting emails as html – if you put a plain text link in, most email clients will see it and automatically turn it into a link for the user…

try it there to see – just send yourself a plain email with a proper email (including the protocol – so like https://creativecow.net) and you should have it already formatted as clickable when you open it in your inbox…

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

you can send html-formatted emails, however most email clients these days properly find and automatically convert html links to clickable links even in plain text mails…

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

you might find the console utility in Applications/Utilities to be of use to check logs for your box…

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

the best thing i can offer is to make use of the “save as” menu and make a few different versions of it – no idea why it won’t open on the pc, but if it’s just a straight up spreadsheet, then .csv or txt would work nicely…

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

not to jump in on mitch’s thread, but you can do the chmod from the terminal – however, you can also ctrl-click (or right-click if you have a 2 button mouse) on the folder, select “get info” and control the permissions that way as well…

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[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

not something that people in this forum might know off of the top of their head – did you try the fcp forum?

sitruc