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Re: To all of developers: please use .txt not .doc extension
- To: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>, "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: "Tim Prince" <tprince at computer dot org>
- Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 19:21:54 -0800
- References: <20001127022113.2016.qmail@web121.yahoomail.com>
From the viewpoint of Microsoft software, .doc has the advantage of
selecting applications which can deal with \n terminated records.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
To: "Jari Aalto" <jari.aalto@poboxes.com>; <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: To all of developers: please use .txt not .doc extension
> --- 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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