On 09-Feb-00, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Patrick Ford said,
>
>> On 09-Feb-00, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
>>> "Save As" on Amiga menus has always referred to a save operation
>>> that opens a file requester so you can specify the filename, as
>>> opposed to a "Save" option that uses a default filename. The As
>>> refers to the file name, not the type of data.
>
>> NOT! ImageFX, FW and Draw Studio come immediately to mind.
>
> ImageFX doesn't have a Save As menu item, in fact it doesn't have
> any menus. It's hardly the best example to use of software following
> the Amiga Style Guide.
No, it has buttons in place of menus. I gave that as just one example of
departure from `Save as' referring only to file names. No mention of
Amiga Style Guide has been made before, and I made no attempt to
demonstrate any example of following it.
If you say `Save as' should be reserved for changing file names I
would probably agree with you, but variations are hardly unusual. IIRC
several speadsheets also offer file format to save from `Save as.'
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