Re: OT: Re: MAC users?

On Wed, 17 May 2006 20:34:26 -0400, singhals <singhals@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

That missing extension is one of things I've always hated -- I tend to
keep my life simple, so I've got 1891.txt 1891.xls 1891.doc and 1891.htm
all with slightly different content and format; without the extension
how in the WORLD do I tell which one I want when I go looking for it?
Sitting here clicking first one and the t'other until I find it makes me
crazy.

Ah. Perhaps you've missed the point a bit. Unix (including Mac OSX)
doesn't particularly _care_ what extension you give it. But normally,
sure, you'll give it the right one.

It also complicates things when I tell someone, "Find your .paf
files..." and they don't see any extensions ... Walking them through the
process of getting something USEFUL on their screen would drive Carrie
Nation into the arms of Jack Daniels.

Yup.

Stupid little icons/thumbnails ... no way to tell how big a file is,
when it was created, or anything else, but here's a cute mini-pic of it!
Bah. Humbug. (Can you tell how I spent part of my afternoon?)

Please, please please tell me it wasn't Christmas shopping.

.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: About File "types" and Office 12.1 Service Pack and double-clicking
    ... in a file format that nobody is actually using. ... Remember that when you are Microsoft and you are selling to the Defence ... use your application to fire "pinball attacks" around the system. ... If the file type is blank, Word will assume the extension is correct and try ...
    (microsoft.public.mac.office.word)
  • Re: Newbie: Saving as Word doc
    ... I've inherited a VB app that experts here say is poorly written. ... Merely changing a file's extension does NOT "convert" that ... application has to support the file's format). ... > goes back into the folder, opens every doc, and resaves it as a Word doc. ...
    (microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion)
  • Re: Get_Video from Youtube
    ... YouTube is well known to use Flash video (.flv) as its standard format, ... The same could happen if the extension and/or MIME type is not known by ...
    (comp.sys.mac.apps)
  • Re: if I send a docx as an attachment it converts to a wps.
    ... Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org ... He opened a .docx extension file in Word 2003. ... not the actual format of the ...
    (microsoft.public.word.docmanagement)
  • TIP #198: Image Command XPM Extension
    ... This TIP proposes an extension to the Tk *image* command to incorporate ... color pixmap images based on the XPM format. ... text-readable color alternative to the standard X11 bitmap format. ...
    (comp.lang.tcl)