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From: "Robinow, David" <drobinow AT dayton DOT adroit DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: To all of developers: please use .txt not .doc extension
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:04:55 -0500
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com]
> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 11:29 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: To all of developers: please use .txt not .doc extension
> If the person who put the package together for cygwin is using .doc
> extensions, they should change to use .txt.
 I can understand the argument against .doc, but I don't understand why
.txt is advisable.  On the average naive user's machine double-clicking
on a "unix-like" file with .doc extension results in a readable file
whereas the same file renamed to a .txt extension starts Notepad which
can't properly handle the line endings.
  Rectification of this problem would essentially cause Notepad to not be
usable for most purposes (Probably a good thing)

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