Hi all, Frode wrote... >First of all Stefan, Don't want to be picky, but your lines are >way too long. Please restrict yourself to max 80 char. per line. > Sorry, but I am NOT going to count how many characters is on each line. This mailer handles everything rather nicely from my point of view. (Windows Netmanage - truetype font for the mailer).
>> First of all the tag I intended is as an extension and therefore part of the >> directory entry. > >So, a suffix to the filename? > :) > >You are talking about convensions. That is OK. Let's call mod-files >something.mod, native screens for something.scr, text files for >something.txt or whatever, but don't impose this on the DOS! If >I for some reason wants to call a text-file for just "tjalabais" >without any suffix, or "tjalla.bais" I want to do that. A file >should be transparent for the DOS. > > -Frode > I don't agree with you on that. The DOS will always impose some restrictions on the file names. One example is the length of the filename. Using suffixes just makes things so easy for utilities and stuff to list only readable files and is also easy for the user so that he knows what kind of file he's dealing with. Maybe I'm just used to ms-dos. Stefan Drissen aka Solar Flare of Entropy E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefan Drissen) S-mail: Zevende Herven 6, 5232 JZ 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
