How come when I download stuff, i get a document with weird letters and symbols?

Question

I have a macbook pro mac os x. like all the good stuff.

on the top of the document it also says This program cannot be run in DOS mode. PLEASE HELP!

Answer 1

i kno mac is like the revoutionary laptop or w/e but i don't kno the answer to ur question. all i kno is my friend has a mac and she can't recieve e-mails from any normal windows vista computers, only other macs. for me to e-mail her, i need to send it to her work, then she forwards it to her mac. i kno this doesn't help and i'm srry about ur problem, but i figured i should tell u this too.

P.S. i don't kno 4 sure tht u will hav the same problem w/ the e-mail thing as my friend, i just told u what i kno. XD srry

Answer 2

It means that the program is not compatible with your mac or you don't have the right program to run it.  

Answer 3

your downloading program designed for windows on a macintosh you cant run these on this platform !

Answer 4

If you want to run windows things on a mac, you have a few options.  The one you probably want to go for first is "Parallels", which is hard to explain, but it's like having Windows as a program on your Mac.  It costs money, though.  There are two more options: Bootcamp, which allows you to install Windows on your mac without interfering with your normal stuff (it's free) and Darwine (this one takes a lot of time and understanding).