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Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 21:28:51 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: To all of developers: please use .txt not .doc extension
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In-Reply-To: <20001127022113.2016.qmail@web121.yahoomail.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 06:21:13PM -0800

On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 06:21:13PM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- 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.

I imagine that most of the doc files come straight from their respective
packages, too.  .doc files mean something different on UNIX than they
do on Windows.

cgf

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