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Re: To all of developers: please use .txt not .doc extension
- To: Jari Aalto <jari dot aalto at poboxes dot com>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: To all of developers: please use .txt not .doc extension
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 18:21:13 -0800 (PST)
--- Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@poboxes.com> wrote:
>
> I'm thankfull for the great effort everybody is making
> to get cygwin better and better. I just wanted to make an
> additional note, that, would all cygwin developers
> remember that the .doc file is associated to the Word and
> the prefered way to refer to text files is .txt
>
The preferred method for reading text files in Cygwin is to use a pager such as
less or using read-only mode in an editor such as vim. IIRC, view is a
read-only mode for vim. Extention of .doc indicates to me that it is
documentation.
Cheers,
=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
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