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: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 00:24:39 -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> <20001127232900 DOT C32739 AT redhat DOT com> In-Reply-To: <20001127232900.C32739@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 DAA25082 On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 23:29:00 -0500, you wrote: >You can do statistical analysis or find any kind of "doc"umentation that >you want. The fact of the matter is that if the creator of a package >(*not* the cygwin package maintainer) used doc we're not going to change >that. I'm not going to rename files in source distributions where the >author used .doc as an extension. Sorry if I inadvertently bolstered someone's contention that you should do such a thing. Of course that would be bad, in every way. > >If the person who put the package together for cygwin is using .doc >extensions, they should change to use .txt. I'm glad to hear you think so, because I think so too. :-) > >cgf Richa rd itt -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com