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RE: To all of developers: please use .txt not .doc extension
- To: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: To all of developers: please use .txt not .doc extension
- From: "Robinow, David" <drobinow at dayton dot adroit dot com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:04:55 -0500
> -----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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