Emile,
Wikipedia is not Bible; do not believe what you read / find in
Wikipedia (like in other source that does not own the product, and
even there...).
Read, test, check, and compare results, then start to talk (eventually).
I cited Wikipedia because Wikipedia presented a helpful summary of the
situation (i.e., that .doc was the "default file type" for WordPad for
Windows 95/98, while .rtf is the "default file type" for Windows XP),
explaining why some Web sites could claim (and properly so) that
WordPad's "default file type" was ".rtf" and other Web sites could claim
(and properly so) that WordPad's "default file type" was ".doc." I was
not citing Wikipedia as an infallible resource on the subject, and I did
experiment with three of the four Windows computers in our home as well
as research the Web on the subject. Thus I think I did "read, test, and
compare results" before I did "start to talk."
> Everyone knows that the "default file type" for Microsoft WordPad
[is RTF]....
Sorry, I do not know. Microsoft Windows proposes to open .txt files
with Microsoft WordPad, so how do I know ?
Sorry. What I should have said was not "Everyone knows" but "Many
Windows users think
that the 'default file type' for Microsoft WordPad is always RTF, but it
isn't."
Incidentally, are you sure that "Microsoft Windows proposes to open .txt
files with Microsoft WordPad? If so, that is another change, because in
the past, the default program used by Windows for .txt files was
Notepad, not WordPad. (I can't confirm what you say one way or the
other with our Windows computers, because I've told Windows to open .txt
files with a different program, either Edit Pad or Edit Pad Pro.)
BTW: must I tell you the width / height / number of pages of the
Windows documentation?
Answer: ridiculously thin. In fact, there is (nearly) nothing in the
documentation.
That's one reason why I quoted Wikipedia rather than citing Microsoft
documentation. When I do find information on the Microsoft Web site
(and some amazing things are hidden in the Microsoft Knowledge Base), it
is often either difficult to find or difficult to use. (Example: I
looked up the RTF specifications on the Microsoft site. I found them,
but rather than their being a simple .txt, .rtf, or .doc file, what
Microsoft provided was an .exe file that had to be run to get the
documentation, and when you did get it, it was placed in a folder of
Microsoft's choosing <sigh>.)
Warm regards,
Barry Traver
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