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From: "James Lefavour" <jamesl AT mail DOT albany DOT net>
To: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca, opendos-developer AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 13:10:50 -0500
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Subject: Re: [opendos] Wishlist v2.0
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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.
OK, you've convinced me (by the "netscape argument", no less.

So, our help system will be able to be used 2 ways:

Access help using 8 letter name, search first for .zip ext., then for 
.htm ext. in help directory;

Access using 8.3 full name, searching in help directory for specific 
filename;

in either case, when searching for topical help (ie. help diskcopy, 
for example) search first for compressed default file, then for 
uncompressed?

Or simply don't support uncompressed format?

Just wondering...

Jim
jamesl AT albany DOT net - http://www.albany.net/~jamesl/