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RE: To all of developers: please use .txt not .doc extension
- To: "Robinow, David" <drobinow at dayton dot adroit dot com>
- Subject: RE: To all of developers: please use .txt not .doc extension
- From: "Avraham H. Fraenkel" <avraham dot fraenkel at comMATCH dot com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 16:57:54 +0200 (IST)
- cc: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Reply-To: "Avraham H. Fraenkel" <avraham dot fraenkel at comMATCH dot com>
what about '.text' ?
Avraham
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Avraham H. Fraenkel
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URL : www.comMATCH.com
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On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Robinow, David wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
> > Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 11:29 PM
> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Re: To all of developers: please use .txt not .doc extension
> > If the person who put the package together for cygwin is using .doc
> > extensions, they should change to use .txt.
> I can understand the argument against .doc, but I don't understand why
> .txt is advisable. On the average naive user's machine double-clicking
> on a "unix-like" file with .doc extension results in a readable file
> whereas the same file renamed to a .txt extension starts Notepad which
> can't properly handle the line endings.
> Rectification of this problem would essentially cause Notepad to not be
> usable for most purposes (Probably a good thing)
>
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