what about '.text' ?
Avraham
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Avraham H. Fraenkel
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On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Robinow, David wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 11:29 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 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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