Re: Next time you make a trace file... ( was Re: Need DTP to replace PageMaker)
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On 04/13/07 16:09, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 15:59 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>>> please try to remember to add .txt to text file names. It makes
>>>> things easier for GUI tools.
>>>>
>>> Really? I thought that was strictly a DOS/Windows-ism.
>>>
>>> "The more things change the more they remain the same!"
>> Nope. Otherwise, how would it know which app to open a file with?
>
> GNOME (and other DE's I expect) happily uses magic number tests to look
> up the mime type for files without extensions.
>
> That said, I agree that it's best to always add an extension.
Before I wrote that, I tested it: in Nautilus, the exact same set of
bytes when called foo.txt is "plain text document", and when named
foo.py is called "Python script", even if it's not a Python script.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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