| Title: | DOCUMENT T1.0 |
| Notice: | **New notesfile (DOCUMENT.NOTE) now available (see note 897)** |
| Moderator: | CLOSET::ADLER |
| Created: | Mon Feb 09 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Oct 31 1991 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 897 |
| Total number of notes: | 4397 |
The BL8 MAIL destinatation still creates a .TXT file. Given the renamed extensions for the other destinations, I expected to see something like .TEXT or .MAIL. Just curious. Rose
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| 499.1 | Save wear on the keyboard | CUPOLA::HAKKARAINEN | with hasty reverence | Fri Jun 12 1987 10:12 | 2 |
In defense of .txt, it is the default input file type used by
MAIL when sending a file.
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| 499.2 | TXT is vaguely defined | VAXUUM::KOHLBRENNER | Fri Jun 12 1987 12:11 | 7 | |
Filetypes are all "registered" these days. TXT is a registered
file type that is so vaguely defined that we thought we could
continue to use it. :-)
(We also thought MAP would be OK to use, but the MAP filetype is
defined as the output of the LINKER, and since we are not the
LINKER, we can't use it.)
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| 499.3 | .1 wins the why-did-they-name-it-so contest | VAXUUM::DEVRIES | M.D. -- your Device Doctor | Mon Jun 15 1987 09:56 | 4 |
And yes, the official answer is that we use .TXT for the mail file
because that is the default extension in VAXmail for text files.
Mark
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