Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 06:12:28 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To: jamesl AT albany DOT net
cc: opendos-developer AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: [opendos] Wishlist v2.0
In-Reply-To: <199703311910.OAA16199@keeper.albany.net>
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On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, James Lefavour wrote:

> > On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, Jason M. Daniels wrote:
> > I disagree with your comments about using tgz instead of zip.
> > Reason?
> Ditto [remainder deleted, but agreed to :) ]
> 
> Perhaps our help files should use a different extension tho?
> 
> How about .HLZ?

Whatever archiver is used, the extension should be.  Thus if we
use ZIP (most likely) then ZIP should be the extension.  Why
complicate things?  The internal files if html will be .HTM,
etc...  I absolutely HATE it when something uses a different
extension for a known filetype.  A perfect example is the .SDN
files from the Software Distribution Network.  This is software
distributed over FIDOnet which USED to be in ARJ format.  It then
was in ZIP format.  VERY confusing for "Joe average user".  Also,
Netscape's cache used to store files with the extension .MOZ.
THIS WAS REALLY ANNOYING when trying to find cached GIF's, etc...

Lets keep it simple.

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