On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, James K. Lowden wrote: > On 19 Feb 2003 12:29:14 -0800, dialist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> .gz.dia (as you similarly suggest) would still associate the file with >> Dia, which is good, and a human could tell it was gzipped. >> >> But I don't know that a computer would be able to tell this is a gzipped >> Dia file, and so if you, say, right-clicked it and chose "View as Text" >> it wouldn't know to decompress it first, whereas if you chose say >> ".gzdia" or something similar, it could be taught such. > > Hmm. I guess it's another case of "where you stand depends on where you > sit". > > What we're really talking about, I think, is what two names to use for > these three things: > > 1. a zipped dia file > 2. an unzipped dia file > 3. a dia file > > Aesthetically, I think ".dia" is really really pretty. It indicates very > clearly what application created the file (or, anyway, is meant to be > used with it). It's pronounceable and mnemonic. It's worth keeping. > Heck, it's worth trademarking.
Yeah, .dia is good. I don't know if you can trademark a suffix:) > The question is, Is a .dia file -- so named -- zipped or not? Because > while file(1) can figure that out, many programs dumbly rely on whatever > follows the last '.'. > > For my money, a .dia is zipped, and associated with /usr/local/bin/dia. > If I want to expressly state its zippedness or lack thereof, I can name > it .gz.dia or .dia.gz or (unzipped) .dia.xml, etc. If we do want to have the suffix indicate whether it's zipped or not, it's a lot more obvious to put a 'z' or 'gz' in somewhere. The Dia format is XML, it just happens to have been zipped by default until recently. .dia.xml is tautological. I also prefer having my Dia files zipped, but I frequently find it confusing that I can't tell from the filename if it's zipped or not. -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
