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From: Richard Hitt <rbh00 AT netcom DOT com>
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Subject: Re: To all of developers: please use .txt not .doc extension
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 00:24:39 -0800
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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

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