vcal and ical with microsoft outlook 2003 calendar work around

[Spurfy]

I was having issues with vcal appointments attacchment files sent to my email
and posting them to microsoft outlook 2003 calendar. To fix this, I would
doubleclick .vcs or .ics file and click save. When save file appeared with
file name flight.vcs, I changed the name to flight.txt, ensure save type
displayes all files and then select where you want to save the file to and
remember this location and then hit the save button. Now go to the file
where you saved it and double click it to open the text file and add this
line

PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook MIMEDIR//EN

after

BEGIN:VCALENDAR

example

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:1.0
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTStart:20060113T190000Z
DTEnd:20060113T210000Z
LOCATION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:HFC
SUMMARY;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Reservation for JS
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:JS with instructor James Smith
UID:47hfcl34286
PRIORITY:3
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

Then after the adding the line select file save. Now go to microsoft
outlook 2003 select file, import and export, then choose import an icalendar
or vcalendar file (.vcs), select next, change files of type to all files,
then select the file you saved, this will add it the calendar automatically.

I know this a long way around. Microsot could use this information and
adjust the their programing or create an patch update WITH ANY LUCK that will
let the Microsoft outlook 2003 calendar accept vcal or ical files without
this the following line added PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook
MIMEDIR//EN

example

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:1.0
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTStart:20060113T190000Z
DTEnd:20060113T210000Z
LOCATION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:HFC
SUMMARY;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Reservation for JS
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:JS with instructor James Smith
UID:47hfcl34286

Best of luck to all

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