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

[Tim Prince]

>From the viewpoint of Microsoft software, .doc has the advantage of
selecting applications which can deal with \n terminated records.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
To: "Jari Aalto" <jari.aalto@poboxes.com>; <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: To all of developers: please use .txt not .doc extension


> --- Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@poboxes.com> wrote:
> >
> >     I'm thankfull for the great effort everybody is making
> >     to get cygwin better and better. I just wanted to make an
> >     additional note, that, would all cygwin developers
> >     remember that the .doc file is associated to the Word and
> >     the prefered way to refer to text files is .txt
> >
>
> The preferred method for reading text files in Cygwin is to use a pager
such as
> less or using read-only mode in an editor such as vim.  IIRC, view is a
> read-only mode for vim.  Extention of .doc indicates to me that it is
> documentation.
>
> Cheers,
>
> =====
> Earnie Boyd
> mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
>
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