Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <20001127022113.2016.qmail@web121.yahoomail.com> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 18:21:13 -0800 (PST) From: Earnie Boyd Subject: Re: To all of developers: please use .txt not .doc extension To: Jari Aalto , cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Jari Aalto 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 AT yahoo DOT com --- --- --- Cygwin: POSIX on Windows --- --- Minimalist GNU for Windows --- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com