On 11-Nov-02, Matt Sealey wrote: > Open a DPaint file requester - or an ADpro one, or an ImageFX one, and > lo and behold: they will display "A file for Jamie" whether they > support it or not.
Yes. But OTOH in Windows, it can be quite annoying that files you want to see listed are _not_ shown. You can filter by extension in ASL just as you can in Windows. In neither case does it really tell you the file type - only the header inside the file does that, and then not always (CDDA files for example). > It doesn't need it. If you give a file the right name, you don't even > need a computer to tell you what's in it. It's 100x faster to say > "this file has an mp3 extension, therefore there is a very good chance > that it is in fact an mp3 file", than to scan the first few kilobytes > pattern matching it against a database of 100-200 descriptions of file > formats. But the file type identifier should not have to be part of the filename string. It should be in the icon (if any), or in an extension of the file notes that Amiga files have. The information is logically independent of the name. > Memory protection doesn't prevent crashes, it merely catches them. Not even that, sometimes. The Real Audio player manages to reboot Win2000 here regularly. > One day when you learn how computers work in the real world, maybe > you'll be qualified enough to talk about them. In the real world, most desktop computers don't work very well. Regards -- Don Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
