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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 08:13:18 -0800 (PST)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: RE: To all of developers: please use .txt not .doc extension
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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--- "Robinow, David" <drobinow AT dayton DOT adroit DOT com> wrote:
> > -----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.

Based on David's logic, my opinion is that the Cygwin documentation should end
in .doc.  Word and wordpad both convert text files properly even with UNIX
style line endings while the NOTEPAD product doesn't.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com

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