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Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 18:21:13 -0800 (PST)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: To all of developers: please use .txt not .doc extension
To: Jari Aalto <jari DOT aalto AT poboxes DOT com>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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--- Jari Aalto <jari DOT aalto AT poboxes DOT 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 AT yahoo DOT com

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