-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- 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! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGIAN3S9HxQb37XmcRAjeEAKCzBxfX7Pw8Zr9O6XbW1y524QDn0wCdG+st ngin5e3O6Ck0W/LU9Fc31sw= =E7L+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
