To all of developers: please use .txt not .doc extension

[Avraham H. Fraenkel]

what about '.text' ?


     Avraham

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Avraham H. Fraenkel 
email : avraham.fraenkel@comMATCH.com
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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