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 From: Richard Hitt To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: To all of developers: please use .txt not .doc extension Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 19:50:24 -0800 Reply-To: rbh00 AT netcom DOT com Message-ID: References: <20001127022113 DOT 2016 DOT qmail AT web121 DOT yahoomail DOT com> <20001126212851 DOT A7391 AT redhat DOT com> In-Reply-To: <20001126212851.A7391@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id WAA11925 On Sun, 26 Nov 2000 21:28:51 -0500, you wrote: >On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 06:21:13PM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote: >>--- 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. > >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 From http://www.silicon-alley.com/ext/d.html, which is by no means definitive: .doc (1) t [any] software documentation .doc (2) t [any] version of .sty with added comments > LaTeX .doc (3) b [DOS, Win] > MS Word > document Also, I grepped a linux 2.4.0 tree and found 5 files for doc$ and 193 files for txt$. The total file-and-directory count for the tree was 7955. My sympathies go with .txt denoting ASCII rather than the ambiguous and overused .doc denoting what? framemaker? Word? Latex? The same URL above, under t.html, gives: .txt t [any] ASCII text. Richard Hitt -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com