Mattias Gärtner wrote: >> least easily). I often use the search feature in Total Commander, feed >> the results to a Panel and delete everything it found. > > Can it search for files without extension?
If you put in * it should find them, but you can search for '*.ppu;*.o' and executables without extensions. The major issue is that Windows doesn't have a File Attribute = execute. > > Well, apparently you prefer the 'file extension = file type' idea. You will > hate > Macs. I like the idea of not using extensions, but then again, it makes life really hard. How do you know what file type you have when working from the command line in linux for example. That's why in Mac Finder and Windows Explorer I enable 'show file extensions'. Example: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:tmp$ ls -l untit* -rw-r--r-- 1 graemeg graemeg 7280 2008-05-21 13:50 untitled1 -rw-r--r-- 1 graemeg graemeg 2311 2008-05-21 13:51 untitled2 -rw-r--r-- 1 graemeg graemeg 96256 2008-05-21 13:51 untitled3 Here it lists three files of different types. OpenDocument Text, Rich Text and MS Word respectively. You have no idea knowing that from the command line, other than using some hex editor to peak at the first 3-5 bytes of the file (a process way above the avg user). As a test, I opened Nautilus. As with most Linux apps, it normally detects the file via it's magic number or something, not the file extension. The first two worked by simply double clicking on them, but it had no idea what 'untitled3' was (MS Word document). Strange! Using file extensions simply gives you a nice fallback option (hint) as to what mime type it is. Here is an interesting article (thoughts) from L505. The title 'The Stupidity of Files Without Extensions' says it all. ;-) http://z505.com/cgi-bin/qkcont/qkcont.cgi?p=The%20Stupidity%20of%20Files%20Without%20Extensions > > It is a secret and only told the most fearless Mac users (those using the > terminal). ;) So on a Mac, what's the different between a .app and .cmg (I think it was) files? Are they both folders? I had to unmount the .cmg file, so I take it, it's some kind of drive image file... >> Any other suggestions for a linux application extension? > > .linux or .elf I like .elf! :-) Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
