Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 2/2/2002 7:50:44 PM: > >On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Mike Nordell wrote: > >> Alan Horkan wrote: >> > >> > sorry to nitpick but maybe a three letter extension might be better? >> >> Maybe not? We don't have to be compatible with MS-DOS (and derivates - such >> as Windows 3.x) since AbiWord requires at least a 32-bit platform (anyone > >I realise you dont NEED to have 8.3 filenames, but im trying to say play >it safe and use 8.3 unless there is a good reason to do otherwise. > >It may be more descriptive to use a longer file extension, but the option >of .abw.bz2 is still available. > >We could have the extension .abiword but we dont. >You never know someone might actually try porting Abiword to 16bit (and >maybe the rest of Abi Office Suite la la la)
Ok, not 16bit, but I am working on porting it to DOS [slowly] via DJGPP/GCC 3.03 and Allegro. (Very very early stages!) [reminds me to update my patches for the configuration system (to add DOS to the list) and to the couple of files that have platform #ifdefs and see if they can be committed? too much to do, never enough time :-) ] > >but seriously >Are there downsides to using a 3 letter suffix in this case? not really, other than being less descriptive > >> > Its probably not inherently any better but i still >> > try and keep to 8.3 filenames out of habit. >> >> If you still have to support Win16 or Novell 3.11 I can understand your >> standpoint, but I don't think it's fit for the general public nowadays. Even > >play it safe, >if you want i could try and find out the necessary window registry >settings to hide the extension from "the general public". > >> That's what I'd assume it to be if it was a bzip2 compressed .abw file. >> Coming to think of it, I'd actually prefer .abw.gz over .zabw (the latter perhaps it should be .gzabw or some such, but .abw.gz can cause problems as I don't think Windows uses more than the part after the last dot for the extension, so .abw.gz is treated as a .gz file not a .abw.gz file. [but hey, I've been wrong before and I could be wrong here] > >agreed >i leave compression off by default i feel safer with text and have plenty >of diskspace. > >Ive made my suggestion, im done for now > >Sincerely >Alan I concur. :-) Jeremy Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [hmm, how long will it take for this to show up??? maybe in a few hours...]
